On 8/6/2015 3:56 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:> On 08/05/2015 08:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> >> This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added >> Highpoint raid card which is used only for the two extra IDE ports. > > Why "extra"? Are there drives connected to this system other than the > two you're discussing for the software RAID sets? > > I know you said that you can't take the system down for an extended > period of time. Do you have enough time to connect the two 1TB drives > and nothing else, and do a new install? It would be useful to know if > such an install booted, to exclude the possibility that there's some > fundamental incompatibility between some combination of the BIOS, the > Highpoint boot ROM, and the 1TB drives. > > If it doesn't boot, you have the option of putting the bootloader, > kernel, and initrd on some other media. You could boot from an > optical disc, or a USB drive, or CF.To be honest, I don't remember why the Highpoint card was used. It could be that I had originally intended to use the raid capabilities of the card, or maybe I just didn't want the two members of the mirror to be master/slave on the same IDE channel. Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan. If that works, I can connect the old drive, copy over all the data, and then try to figure out what I need to do to get all the programs running again. -- Bowie
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote:> Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan. If that > works, I can connect the old drive, copy over all the data, and then try to > figure out what I need to do to get all the programs running again.Sounds like a pain. I would just adapt the CentOS 6 program.log commands for your case. That's a 2 minute test. And it ought to work. Clearly the computer finds the drive, reads the MBR and executes stage 1. The missing part is it's not loading or not executing stage 2 for some reason. I'm just not convinced the bootloader is installed correctly is the source of the problem with the 2nd drive. It's not like the BIOS or HBA card firmware is going to faceplace right in between stage 1 and stage 2 bootloaders executing. If there were a problem there, the drive simply doesn't show up and no part of the bootloader gets loaded. -- Chris Murphy
On 8/6/2015 4:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: > >> Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan. If that >> works, I can connect the old drive, copy over all the data, and then try to >> figure out what I need to do to get all the programs running again. > Sounds like a pain. I would just adapt the CentOS 6 program.log > commands for your case. That's a 2 minute test. And it ought to work.I'm not familiar with that. How would I go about adapting the CentOS 6 program.log commands?> Clearly the computer finds the drive, reads the MBR and executes stage > 1. The missing part is it's not loading or not executing stage 2 for > some reason. I'm just not convinced the bootloader is installed > correctly is the source of the problem with the 2nd drive. It's not > like the BIOS or HBA card firmware is going to faceplace right in > between stage 1 and stage 2 bootloaders executing. If there were a > problem there, the drive simply doesn't show up and no part of the > bootloader gets loaded.Definitely a strange problem. I'm hoping that doing a new install onto these drives rather than trying to inherit the install used on the smaller drives will work better. -- Bowie
Am 06.08.2015 um 22:21 schrieb Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com>:> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: > >> Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan. If that >> works, I can connect the old drive, copy over all the data, and then try to >> figure out what I need to do to get all the programs running again. > > Sounds like a pain. I would just adapt the CentOS 6 program.log > commands for your case. That's a 2 minute test. And it ought to work. > > Clearly the computer finds the drive, reads the MBR and executes stage > 1. The missing part is it's not loading or not executing stage 2 for > some reason. I'm just not convinced the bootloader is installed > correctly is the source of the problem with the 2nd drive. It's not > like the BIOS or HBA card firmware is going to faceplace right in > between stage 1 and stage 2 bootloaders executing. If there were a > problem there, the drive simply doesn't show up and no part of the > bootloader gets loaded.on which OS (eg. c5, c6) was the partition created? -- LF