From: Dan Pritts (email_suppressed_at_lugwash.org)
Date: Mon 12-Mar-2007 03:46:04 PM EDT
I had similar problems with grub not getting installed properly
during red hat installs. I think it was mostly with software raid
but maybe with dells on megaraid too.
fix was to boot from a rescue disk and re-run grub-install.
whether it's the same problem you have, i udnno.
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:25:45PM -0400, Sinclair, Sean wrote:
> Dist,
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> This might be a long shot but worth trying regardless.
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> I ran into some 'interesting' issues recently and was wondering if
> someone might have some pointers as to where I went wrong.
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> I was attempting to install SLES 9 on a Dell Poweredge 2400. This
> machine had 5 drives in total, 2 of one size, and 3 of another.
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> Not wanting to disable the channel containing the 2 drives, I decided to
> set each of their drives as their own RAID 0, and the other 3 as a RAID
> 5 configuration.
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> Essentially I had 3 logical drives. 2 of them at Raid 0, one at Raid 5.
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> In order to recognize the raid controller I had to load the
> 'megaraid-old' module first and then proceed with the install.
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> During install I partitioned the sda (one of the Raid0 logical drives)
> as such: sda1 = /, sda2 = /swap, sda3 = /boot.
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> After the install I removed the installation media and rebooted. The 3
> logical drives are found, but I get the following error:
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> "GRUB Loading stage2..." followed up by some random foreign characters.
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> So again I had to boot the install from the CD after loading the same
> "megaraid-old" module. This time after logging in as root, I edit the
> '/etc/syconfig' by modifying INITRD_MODULES to include megaraid-old as
> one of the module to load. Following this edit I ran 'mkinitrd' which
> ran successfully. I then rebooted. Same exact problem is appearing.
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> I have since reformatted and put the 2 drives together on a Raid1
> configuration, and I encounter no issues.
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> I first assumed that this was a Raid Controller issue with having to
> load the megaraid-old module, but am now convinced that GRUB did not
> like being on a RAID 0 configuration, even though only 1 physical drive
> was in the RAID.
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> Again, I'm fairly new but just wondering if anyone might have insight as
> to where I went wrong, or if I was wrong attempting a Raid0 config with
> only 1 drive?
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> Regards,
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