On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:36:06AM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > 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 > I'm very lucky to have gotten this one...so I don't have other 1950s to test with. Mind if I come pick up a few more? What really makes me scratch my head is why my grub cd doesn't fix the MBR properly the first time around. It is a newer version of grub than what's in RHEL 4. *shrug* Jack -- Jack Neely <jjneely@xxxxxxxx> Campus Linux Services Project Lead Information Technology Division, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89
