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Comment on Installing a software RAID 10 Debian system with LUKS disk encryption by Jason

Jason — Mon, 04 May 2020 06:51:16 +0000

After setup, the system boots succesfully with two disks installed. However, then as a test, when removing the disk with the EFI partition on it, and trying to boot, I get ‘no boot device’. This was rather obvious since I had to install the EFI partition manually and could only do this on one disk. What suprised me though was that on testing with the other disk removed, I get “cryptsetup: waiting for encrypted source device xxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx”. I ended up going without raid.

Comment on Installing a software RAID 10 Debian system with LUKS disk encryption by Timm

Timm — Mon, 04 May 2020 02:42:38 +0000

Can you also show how to rebuild the RAID in case a drive fails, please?

Comment on Installing a software RAID 10 Debian system with LUKS disk encryption by Jason

Jason — Fri, 01 May 2020 16:03:56 +0000

Hi Theo, thanks very much for the guide, much appreciated! One issue I ran into: I followed the guide on a Dell T40 with Debian 10.3, to install a raid 1 array with to SSD’s. After trying to finish the partitioning, I get ‘No EFI System Partition Found, return to partioning?”

This was solved by re-starting all over and deleting the partition table, then creating an extra 512MB FAT32 non-raid partiion at the start of the disk, and marking it for use as EFI. 512MB is probably way too large, but I did not feel like doing this a third time.

Unfortunately, EFI partitions cannot be software raided it seems. If you have any thoughts on this please let me know.

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Comment on Installing a software RAID 10 Debian system with LUKS disk encryption by Ondrej

Ondrej — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 08:57:21 +0000

Thanks for this post. Awesome ideas 🙂
Cheers from Czech Republic

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Comment on Installing a software RAID 10 Debian system with LUKS disk encryption by Theodotos Andreou

Theodotos Andreou — Thu, 17 May 2018 10:21:06 +0000

In reply to Joshua Palmer.

I guess your mileage may vary then. Good to know. Thanks for the feedback Joshua.

Comment on Installing a software RAID 10 Debian system with LUKS disk encryption by Joshua Palmer

Joshua Palmer — Wed, 16 May 2018 21:59:28 +0000

In reply to Joshua Palmer.

Just finished testing, and it didn't work for me. Using an HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 (BIOS), I followed these steps to the letter. The OS installs, then fails when trying to install GRUB2. For the second test, I created a GRUB BIOS partition on each drive (for failover), tried again, and installation completed successfully.

Comment on Installing a software RAID 10 Debian system with LUKS disk encryption by Theodotos Andreou

Theodotos Andreou — Wed, 16 May 2018 05:53:12 +0000

In reply to Joshua Palmer.

It should work without that. Give it a try and let us know.

Comment on Installing a software RAID 10 Debian system with LUKS disk encryption by Joshua Palmer

Joshua Palmer — Tue, 15 May 2018 18:47:00 +0000

In reply to Theodotos Andreou.

Outstanding! I've been waiting for that to happen.

One more thing. I'm not certain this will work as described with the BIOS partition step removed. Did it just work for you without that step on a BIOS machine, or are you running UEFI. Once again -- am I just living in the past?