Dear P.,
Yes, this has happened EVERY time I have installed CentOS 4.0 (the only
version I have ever installed). I also boot up into rescue mode and then
issue just one grub command,
grub-install /dev/i2o/hda (or whatever your device is called)
This fixes the problem permanently.
Stephen Westrip
MetaFour
Peter Farrow wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have recently had a bad experiences with Centos 4.0 and 4.1 when
> installing onto mirrored IDE drives using software mirror.
>
> The install goes through ok, but when the system comes to reboot, it
> seems the boot loader fails. I've seen fail on the first reboot or
> after a random number of reboots, across different hardware as wide
> and varied as you can get, the common factor is software raid,
> (mirrored drives).
>
> It either fails just displaying "GRUB" or fails with a flashing cursor
> at the bootup time.
>
> Booting a rescue cd, doing a chroot /mnt/sysimage and then the
> following grub commands fixes the issue permanently, so that it never
> fails again,
>
> grub
>
> grub-> root (hd0,0)
> grub-> setup (hd0)
> grup-> root (hd1,0)
> grub-> setup (hd1)
> grub-> quit
>
> it seems to me the Anaconda installer doesn't do something quite right
> which leads to this random style failure. Its only random as to when
> it will do it, unless you do this, it will do it at some point.....
>
> I've been doing Redhat for many years and never seen this problem
> before......anybody else seen this
>
> P.
>
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