On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 11:31 -0500, Jack Neely wrote: > Folks, > > I've run into something odd, and a way to repair the damage, but was > hoping someone could shed some light on what's actually happening. > > We've stabilized on RHEL 4.4 for the time being. I have had several > reports of folks installing a RAID 1 system with /boot mirrored and > complained that Grub hangs or otherwise wont boot the system. I've done > this a lot and it always works for me. > > Until I installed a new Dell 1950. Grub tries to load stage 1.5 and > runs off into random data land. > > I used a Grub CD and > > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) > > if I was lucky, I would get different random data. However, when I used > my grub CD and the configfile option to bring up the system proper I can > run a grub shell from the system and do this: > > device (hd0) /dev/sda > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) > > I reboot the system and it works like a champ. > > Try to install Grub again using the first method with the grub CD and we > are back to random data land. > > What's happening here? Is this #217176? I've got a number of 1950s installed with /boot on sw-raid1. No problems so far. Have you been able to verify this on multiple 1950s? Could it just be this one? -sv
