I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able
to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive
to boot.
This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added Highpoint
raid card which is used only for the two extra IDE ports. I have
upgraded it with a 1TB SATA drive and an IDE-SATA adapter. I did not
have any problems with the system recognizing the drive or adding it to
the mdraid. A short SMART test shows no errors.
Partitions:
Disk /dev/hdg: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdg1 1 25 200781 fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hdg2 26 121537 976045140 fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hdg3 121538 121601 514080 fd Linux raid
autodetect
Raid:
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 hdg1[1] hde1[0]
200704 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md1 : active raid1 hdg3[1] hde3[0]
513984 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md2 : active raid1 hdg2[1] hde2[0]
487644928 blocks [2/2] [UU]
fstab (unrelated lines removed):
/dev/md2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/md0 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/md1 swap swap defaults 0 0
I installed grub on the new drive:
grub> device (hd0) /dev/hdg
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2
/grub/grub.conf"... succeeded
Done.
But when I attempt to boot from the drive (with or without the other
drive connected and in either IDE connector on the Highpoint card), it
fails. Grub attempts to boot, but the last thing I see after the bios
is the line "GRUB Loading stage 1.5", then the screen goes black, the
system speaker beeps, and the machine reboots. This will continue as
long as I let it. As soon as I switch the boot drive back to the
original hard drive, It boots up normally.
I also tried installing grub as (hd1) with the same results.
A few Google searches haven't turned up any hits with this particular
problem and all of the similar problems have been with Ubuntu and grub2.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
--
Bowie
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