Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/12/31 12:39 (GMT-0600) Moby composed:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Tuesday 2008 December 30 16:46:00 Moby wrote:
I have tried reinstalled Grub to theMBR,
For whatever brain-dead reason, grub might be trying to boot off of /dev/sdb; make sure grub is on the MBR of both disks that mirror /boot.
as well as to the boot sector of the active parition (/dev/sda1) to no avail.
That probably broke your mirror for when you can get past GRUB, good luck repairing that.
I did install Grub to MBR of both disks - no joy. Installing Grub to boot sector of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdba did not break the mirror - the system is working fine, just that I have to boot off of a Grub boot CD instead of from the HDD.
Maybe there's just something wrong generally with Grub and RAID. I just filed a bug that only loosely resembles this thread: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463033
Note I'm having success only using Grub pre-installed off sda1, and with standard MBR code.
Many thanks Felix. I shall look at the bug report. It does match my scenario in the sense that everything was working with "pre-installed Grub" (installed by some old ancient installation oss) in the MBR. Another observation is that in my case, if I manually go into Grub and execute commands to set the root, kernel, and initrd, everything works till I specify initrd - at which point Grub complains about "Inconsistent file system" and spews error 16. However, fsck shows everything clean and the machine boots fine using the same initrd when I use the bootable grub CD! -- --Moby They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. -- Pastor Martin Niemöller -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org