similar to: 4.2 install w/250GB raid arrays won't boot

I have a CentOS 4.2 system that was set up VERY quickly following the demise of its former life as a CentOS 3 server - you don't want the full story, but it had to be done quickly to get a company up and working following a slight disaster involving an electrician, a portable appliance safety tester and a pulled power cable - anyway, here's where I am at... Everything is running fine but

I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive to boot. 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. I have upgraded it with a 1TB SATA drive and an IDE-SATA adapter. I did not have any problems with the system

Hello, I have two disks sda and sdb. One of the was broken so I have changed the broken disk with a working one. I started the server in rescue mode, and created the partional table, and added all the partitions to the software raid. *I have added the partitions to the RAID, and reboot.* # mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1 # mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdb2 # mdadm /dev/md2 --add /dev/sdb3 # mdadm

I never thought I'd say this, but I think it's easier to do this with GRUB 2. Anyway I did an installation to raid1's in CentOS 6's installer, which still uses GRUB legacy. I tested removing each of the two devices and it still boots. These are the commands in its log: : Running... ['/sbin/grub-install', '--just-copy'] : Running... ['/sbin/grub',

Hi all! Doing some tests with CentOS 5.5 on a KVM virtual machine, after doing the installation, I added a second disk. But when trying to boot from it, I get the following error: --------------------------------------------------------------------- root (hd1,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist --------------------------------------------------------------------- The two disks are

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all! Doing some tests with CentOS 5.5 on a KVM virtual machine, after doing the installation, I added a second disk. But when trying to boot from it, I get the following error: - --------------------------------------------------------------------- root (hd1,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist -

doing that grub-install /dev/sda will give me the "corresponding BIOS device" error. But now I fixed it by doing a manual grub install. first boot with cd1 and type linux rescue at the prompt when you're at the linux prompt after detecting and mounting the partitions, do a "chroot /mnt/sysimage" then # grub --batch #grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs,

OK, this is probably long, and your answer will surely make me slap my forehead really hard... please help me understand what goes on. I intend to install CentOS 5.1 afresh over software RAID level 1. SATA drives are in AHCI mode. I follow basically [1] though I have made some mistakes as will be explained. AFAIK GRUB does not boot off LVM, so I: 1. Build a 100MB RAID-type partition on each

Dear All, I have a K8S-MX Asus Athlon 64 Motherboard with a 754 pin 3000+ CPU, which I cam trying to install 4.1 Centos 64 bit. The problem seems to arise when installing onto Mirrored disks, I have noticed that from Centos 4 onwards it tries to rebuild the arrays as it installs which slows the whole process right down across all platforms I have tried it on. In addition, the install

On 8/5/2015 12:34 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: >> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. > I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte > physical sectors, but it's worth confirming you don't have such a > drive because the current partition

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: > I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte physical sectors, but it's worth confirming you don't have such a drive because the current partition scheme you've posted would be sub-optimal if it does have 4096

On 08/05/2015 10:23 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > Nothing about hd0 or hd1 gets baked into the bootloader code. It's an > absolute reference to a physical drive at the moment in time the > command is made. Is that true? If I have a system with two disks, where device.map labels one as hd0 and the other as hd1, and I swap those numbers, the resulting boot sector will differ by one bit.

I have a virtual machine that had been running fine using a RAW disk image (IDE). I am in the process of converting this virtual machine to use a single LVM and virtio. (For LVM backup snapshots and easy resizing purposes (no LVM within the guest)) I create the LVM and copied all the files from the existing RAW image to an ext3 under the LVM. However, I cannot get it to boot. It has to do

created 2 partitions on laptop (/ and swap) formatted them. mounted both source and target (under /mnt on each machine) rsync -a / from desktop -> laptop (Note: OS on desktop is on sdb5. On laptop it's going to sda1) Now I need to put grub on mbr of laptop boot: linux rescue chroot /mnt/sysimage Here is my problem grub-install /dev/sda The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. Can

I've got two pendrives. I want to install a Debian on them. RAID1. Ok... ... After I installed it in RAID1, it works perfectly, ok! :) When I pull out one of the pendrive [good pendrive], it still boots up, hurrah :) But: ... When I pull out the other pendrive [i plug in the first one i tried] it say's: GRUB hard disk error What can I do? I already tried: grub-install /dev/sdc

On 8/5/2015 1:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: >> How would I go about pointing it at the partition? >> >> What I am currently doing is this: >> device (hd0) /dev/hdg >> root (hd0,0) >> setup (hd0) > > setup (hd1,0) > > It's hd1 if your device map is correct and

I have a p4 motherboard with 2 ide interfaces, I connect 2 40 GB drives as hda and hdc, I install Centos 4 from a CDROM, and partition the drives as 2 x raid partition each plus a swap partition on hda, the make md0 and md1 to install /boot and / respectively. Install goes well, everything looks great, go to reboot from drives, and all I get is "grub" but no boot. I have tried this ten

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 08/05/2015 10:23 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> Nothing about hd0 or hd1 gets baked into the bootloader code. It's an >>> absolute reference to a physical drive at the moment

I am using Xen 3.3 from source. My PV guest boots fine with the normal kernel and initrd options When I boot the guest with PV GRUB I only get: GNU GRUB version 0.97 (65536K lower / 0K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible

Using build 70, I followed the zfsboot instructions at http:// www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/zfsboot-manual/ to the letter. I tried first with a mirror zfsroot, when I try to boot to zfsboot the screen is flooded with "init(1M) exited on fatal signal 9" Than I tried with a simple zfs pool (not mirrored) and it just reboots right away. If I try to setup grub