Server 9.10 Grub not installed

[DrJohn]

Installed 9.10 server with RAID1 + LVM:

$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] 
md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
      311588608 blocks [2/2] [UU]
      
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
      979840 blocks [2/2] [UU]
      
unused devices: <none>

Set md0 as /boot and md1 as LVM thus:

~$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/M3N78EM_VG1-M3N78EM_V2_ROOT
                      48057224    817684  44798324   2% /
udev                    963200       244    962956   1% /dev
none                    963200         0    963200   0% /dev/shm
none                    963200        36    963164   1% /var/run
none                    963200         0    963200   0% /var/lock
none                    963200         0    963200   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/mapper/M3N78EM_VG1-M3N78EM_V3_HOME
                     253832836    191600 240747236   1% /home
/dev/md0                964408     32892    882524   4% /boot

LVM volume 1 of the (single) volume group is 5 GB swap space.

fdisk shows something:

~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e78e2

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         122      979933+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2             123       38913   311588707+  fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002d200

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         122      979933+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2             123       38913   311588707+  fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/md0: 1003 MB, 1003356160 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 244960 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/md1: 319.1 GB, 319066734592 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 77897152 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Neither MD devices contain a valid partition table -- is that normal?

When the system boots, GRUB does not display at all -- it just boots. There is no menu.lst file in /boot/grub. And, grub is not installed as in:

$ grub
The program 'grub' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install grub
grub: command not found

My main concern is will the system still boot if /dev/sda becomes non-operational? What happened to grub with 9.10?

Thanks

[DrJohn]

OK... Somehow I missed out on Grub 2.0 as the 9.10 default. I guess I'll figure out how to get to memtest if I need it. And I'll just pull the plug on sda to see if it boots off of sdb alone....