On 02/08/2008 05:49 AM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
I've got three three 8-port 3-ware controllers (24-SATA disks total) and one 2-port 3-ware controller for the system disk. The current configuration has five raid units, and are reported as sda through sde in the install expert partition screen. The 2-disk system raid appears as sde to the partitioner, and is configured with sde1 (boot) sde2 (swap) sde3 (/) and sde4 (/export/home). There doesn't seem to be any way for me to configure things so that the 2-disk raid shows up as sda, where it should be.
Now, here's some further info: After the failed boot it's possible to escape to a very limited shell. At this point the boot failed because it couldn't find sde3, the system root partition. From this limited shell I looked at /dev/sd* and found that sda1-4 exists, but only one partition on sde1. So it looks like my system partition is now showing up as sda!!! WTFO? /etc/fstab had the system partitions on sde, so I booted the rescue system again and edited fstab, changing sde to sda. Alas, this also didn't work.
Not being a grub expert, I'm now at a loss. Any suggestions?
Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, and correct the root= parameter to the correct disk. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org