Bug 496532

Is this still a problem for you?  I just did a quick test with /boot on MD0 and / on sda3.  It was able to boot off the RAID device no problem and got me to a login prompt.  If you're still seeing problems, could you attach program.log and storage.log to this bug report?  Thanks.

I no longer have machines available for fresh installs at this particular time.
However I have also seen the problems when rebooting machines after updates. But since I don't normally reboot right away I am not sure which updates are causing problems. There have been some grub updates and my first thought is those are causing a problem. This may or may not be related to what I saw when I was trying to get F11 installed on some machines I scrounged.
There is a good chance I'll be trying another install using a live dvd Thursday night created by livecd-creator before then. I can report back on Friday if I see the problem again.
Do those log files end up in someplace obvious (e.g. /var/log or /root)?
Is a live dvd based install going to properly test this? I was using network installs when I saw the problem because I have a local mirror at home. I won't have one this Thursday.

After a successful install, they're copied into /var/log.  So you'd be looking for /var/log/storage.log, /var/log/program.log, and /var/log/anaconda.log.

If you can set up /boot on a RAID volume with the livecd installer, then you should be able to test this.  Is the problem that only one of the members gets a boot record written to it, so it then depends on which device gets selected for boot?

My guess would be that some setup is only done on one drive.
For the machine(s) I will be playing with on Thursday, they have 3 drives, one of which has windows and two are available for the install. So I can set up raid. The machines are setup to boot from the mbr of the windows drive, but last week when I did an install on one of them, the mbr was change to point to /boot on another drive and that all seemed to work at some point. I don't remember whether or not I had to futz with grub or not.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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I am just closing out the needinfo. Anaconda has changed a lot since f11, so there isn't any point in reopening this bug again even if the problem were to occur in a current release.

I should be trying a fresh install with software raid of f22 in the near future and will file a new bug if the bios can't boot off of both drives after an install.