On Sunday 05 January 2003 12:39 pm, Brian Curtis wrote: > Hello, > > I've just encountered a strange problem with my recently upgraded > Psyche box. > > After a system restart to account for a new IDE HDD, the system > starts to boot then hangs at "GRUB" while emitting either a > continuous-tone beep or fast repeating beeps. > > The system files all reside on SCSI disks, and has been working just > fine up until now. It does not make a difference if I remove the > new IDE HDD. > > I can use Psyche install CD 1 to get into a rescue shell. Once > there, everything looks just peachy and seems accessible. I've > chrooted to /mnt/sysimage and was able browse around, bring up eth0 > and SSH, then connect from another machine on the network. I also > ran e2fsck on all partitions, and came up with "clean" results. > > If it matters, my / partition (which includes /root and /boot) is a > Linux SW RAID1 mirror across 2 disks. DMESG output does not contain > any errors, and all md's are reported and loaded without incident. > The new IDE HDD is also detected. > > My question is, where should I start to search for the could-be > problem and correct my current situation? > > Thanks. I have a dual RAID 1 setup too. When you installed the new HD did you put it between the two RAID drives? You have to install a new drive behind existing drives or your mdtab and fstab file won't match the physical drives. In my system, /dev/hda1 = boot, /dev/hda2=swap. /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdc3 = /dev/md0=/ /dev/hdc1=/altboot (bootable) and /dev/hdc2= swap. In otherwords, my two RAID disks have identical partition schemes and sizes. In my configuration, I can install a new HD as /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd since neither affects the original fstab or mdtab. If you did, you can edit fstab and mdtab to match your new drive configuration. Mike W -- Registered Linux - 256979 NRA Life ARS: W0TMW -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
