Re: grub, raid1 help

From: Greg Folkert (greg_at_gregfolkert.net)
Date: 10/31/04

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    To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
    Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:41:39 -0500
    
    
    

    On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 09:58 -0700, Richard Weil wrote:
    > I have a machine with three SCSI disks, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc.
    > The machine boots off of /dev/sdc and I've put /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
    > into a raid1 array, /dev/md0. I can not get the machine to boot off of
    > /dev/md0; I keep getting kernel panics. Since everything else seems
    > fine, I think the problem is with grub.
    >
    > I believe that I have grub installed in the mbr of all three drives. I
    > don't think grub is quite right, though, since I get an error when I
    > try:
    >
    > grub>find /grub/stage1
    >
    > A stanza in /boot/grub/menu.1st that works is:
    >
    > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.7
    > root (hd2,0)
    > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7 root=/dev/sdc1 ro
    > savedefault
    > boot
    >
    > One that doesn't work is:
    >
    > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.7 DISK1
    > root (hd0,0)
    > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7 root=/dev/md0 ro
    > savedefault
    > boot
    >
    >
    > Any ideas?

    Check bugs.debian.org. Check kernel-source-2.6.8 (as it is the one I
    submitted)

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=273182

    Actually is my work e-mail.

    It is a combo of UDEV and MD and Kernel messages and such. I removed
    UDEV and used a static /dev for the time being.

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