David Rees wrote:
Have you tried re-running grub-install after booting from a rescue disk?
-Dave
Hi David,
I have but although I can advance further it seems that the BIOS is
doing some strange things as well, switching drive ordering around.
With a new hda installed and partitioned, ready to be rebuilt, the good
drive, hdc installed, the grub.conf modified to address (hd2,0) - I have
an hdb installed also, and grub installed on hdc, booting with the
BIOS set to start on hdc hangs with the message "grub stage2" then drops
to a grub prompt.
I then enter "kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz" and it finds the kernel. I would
have expected this to be on (hd2,0).
Next, "boot root=/dev/md2", "boot root=/dev/hdc3" or "boot
root=/dev/hda3" all result in the kernel booting then panicing with a
"cannot open root device".
I suspect you are correct that the Fedora installer, having built and
installed to RAID1, does not finish the job by installing grub on the
second drive.
While it is not a problem with this particular box to do a reinstall, it
does not inspire confidence for a number of others that I have.
This is the first time I have lost the primary member of a RAID1, having
replaced secondary members a number of times without issue.
Regards,
Richard
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