Install Proxmox Software Raid 1 Debian

Lenny (5.0) and later support having the root and /boot partition on RAID volume. Actually, you can have root on RAID1+LVM partition.

This page contains some screenshots to demonstrate it, and applies to Debian 5.0 through, at least, 8.0.

Install Proxmox. So, first thing to do - is get a fresh proxmox install, I’m using 5.2-1 at the time of writing. After the install is done, we should have 1 drive with a proxmox install, and 1 unused disk. The installer will create a proxmox default layout that looks something like this (I’m using 1TB Drives).

Root on software RAID+LVM

In this example, we use virtual machine (qemu or kvm).. we can play, and break them

Of course, you need to download a cdrom image.

Root on RAID+LVM example

Those few screenshots show how to install root on lvm on raid :

Once you have reach DebianInstaller partitioning screen..

Choose manual partitioning, then on each disk, manually create a partition (same size on both disks).

Create partitions for RAID

Use as 'Physical volume for Raid' :

Configure RAID

We have a raid partition on each disk:
Choose the type of multidisk device to be created:
We have two partition:
(In this example, we have no spare partition).
Let's select the partitions to use:
That's it !

Configure LVM

Let's configure the Logical volume manager:
First create a volume group:
Here, I chose the name vg1 for the group:
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Let's create the logical volume (kind pf partitions):
Our Logical volume (LV) will use some disk space from vg1 (which belongs to md0):
I named my partition foobar_root:
In this example, we wont split the filesystem (we won't even bother to create a swap, which is a bad idea), so I use all the disk space. (which again isn't a good idea, since it's so easy ro resize a partition with LVM)
Finish:

Use the LVM volumes

Let's assign and format the volumes (partitions):
As usually..
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Install the bootloader (GRUB)

In Jessie (8.0), and I believe Wheezy (7.0), the installer will install GRUB even on RAID installs. However, GRUB can not install to a RAID device (e.g., /dev/md0), but will nonetheless work fine.

When asked to install bootloader, install to first device:
After first boot, consider executing dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc (or dpkg-reconfigure grub-efi-amd64 on EFI systems), and install to all devices. This way, your system will still boot correctly even if you reorder your drives.

Install the bootloader (lilo)

At the end of the installation..

In Lenny (5.0), DebianInstaller automatically switch to lilo when you have root on RAID:

Reboot Debian

Debian is booting:

Using D-I rescue, to reinstall lilo

Thanks to DebianInstaller's rescue mode, it's very easy to recover a problem :

Simply boot on the CD, and choose rescue mode, then after the usual DI prompt, you get :
Then:

Reinstall/ rescue/restore lilo :