On 08/11/2007 07:01 PM, Art Fore wrote:
This worked up to "mdadm --activate --scan" where mdadm said no such command --activate or something to that effect. Assuming you used the 10.2 rescue system, there is no need for that. Went ahead and mounted md3 on /mnt, chroot to /mnt, done a grub, then root (hd0,1) it comes up no such device.
What device had your /boot/grub files in it? That would have been /dev/hda2. Didn't you say you had SATA? Are they first, according to device.map? if so, then /dev/sda2. You probably also needed to, after mount /dev/md3 /mnt, you need to: mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys Then, cd /mnt, then chroot /mnt. Then it should have worked. After chrooting to mnt without /dev, there may not have been any devices there.
Found a suse howto at
http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_install_SUSE_Linux_on_software_RAID
which worked, of course I had to do a reinstall. Guess the /boot partition is needed for suse.
I can guarantee it is not. I have 2 machines running software RAID 1, one with PATA and one with mixed (3 RAID 1 partitions across 4 disks). On both, I have boot as a directory on the root partition. joe@jmorris:~> cat /etc/fstab /dev/md0 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/md1 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/hdc1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/hdc7 /media/backup ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 LABEL=USBBackup /media/USBBackup ext3 user,noauto,acl,user_xattr 0 0 I have manually installed GRUB on the MBR of my disks many times (especially with 10.1). Too bad you reinstalled. I guess this is all moot at this point. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org