Hi
I tried to setup the “EFI System” partition at install time with software RAID1 array. I tried to avoid installing the bootloader to every disk. (I had an RAID1 with spare)
The ubuntu installer allows to set as partition type “EFI System” on the software RAID array. So I thought it would work.
After successful installation the BIOS of the Supermicro mainboard has not found any EFI-Boot partition.
So I destroyed the software RAID of the “EFI System” and installed the bootloader in chroot from a Debian-Live system. I had not to change the partition flag. It was already setup right to “EFI System”
mdadm -S /dev/mdX mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sda1 mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb1 mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdc1 mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1 mount /dev/md[RootFileSystemWithBoot] /mnt mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc chroot /mnt
Now we remove the RAID array from config file
vim /etc/mdadm.conf
Edit your fstab
blkid /dev/sda1 vim /etc/fstab
And last but not least install grub
mount /dev/sda1 /boot/efi grub-install /dev/sda1 umount /boot/efi mount /dev/sdb1 /boot/efi grub-install /dev/sdb1 umount /boot/efi mount /dev/sdc1 /boot/efi grub-install /dev/sdc1 update-grub
Hint: You have to use a install media or live system which is EFI Boot capable and force BIOS to boot from UEFI. (You could use my USB Stick). Otherwise EFI support in Linux is disabled.
Have fun!