Software RAID muck up

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On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Lee W wrote:

> I hope someone can help.
> 
> Just started to play with software RAID on Centos 3.5 and was trying to
> simulate a faulty drive by using the -f switch on mdadm to mark the partition
> (drive) as faulty and I then I removed and readded the drive, which quit
> happily rebuilt according the /proc/mdstat and the output from the --detail
> switch of mdadm.  After all this mucking around I shutdown the system and
> tried to restart it in the morning but the system now won't boot, it gets as
> far as "GRUB loading" and just stops I have hard reset to get it to reboot.
> 
> I have rebooted using the install CD in rescue mode and I can see that all the
> arrays are setup quite happily (all RAID 1's if it matters) and mdstat reports
> the status as "dirty,no-errors".  Is that status normal? all the how-tos I've
> seen about software RAID show this as the status, so I have kind of assumed
> that is okay.
> 
> Given that all the data is readable from the arrays, I'm guessing that I had
> to do something to GRUB prior after rebuilding the arrays and before shutting
> down the system.
> 
> Can anyone help fill in the gap in my knowledge as to what I should have done?

You may want to look at this:

	http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=26912

Not sure if it is the same cause, but worth to check.

Kind regards,
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