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Date:  Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:36:05 +0200
From:  Rickard Osser <rickard.osser (at mark) bluapp.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:13956] Re: Grub problems
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Hi Dennis,

can you do the following:

# cat /dev/mdstat
and
# cat /etc/fstab

and post the results.

Thanks in advance,

Rickard


On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 16:19 +0200, Dennis wrote:
> In the past I encountered similar issues as Taco and the solution for me 
> was same as Taco is describing
> 
> now found your script (I had holiday, so I skipped a lot of messages) 
> and tried it
> 
> I can start the script .. and when stopping it .. i get errors ..
> 
> [root (at mark) wb tmp]# ./fix_grub stop
> Rebuilding grub:
> Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
> 
> 
>     GNU GRUB  version 0.95  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
> 
>  [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
>    lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
>    completions of a device/filename.]
> 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... no
> 
> Error 15: File not found
> grub> root (hd1,0)
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
> grub> setup (hd1)
>  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
>  Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
> 
> Error 15: File not found
> grub> quit
> 
> where:
> boot gives me
> [root@wb boot]# ls -l
> total 2728
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     512 Sep 18  2005 boot.0300
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     512 Sep 18  2005 boot.1600
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    5824 Feb 21  2005 boot.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     612 Feb 21  2005 chain.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   48513 Jan 17  2006 config-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    1024 Jun 19  2007 grub
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  405320 Jan 23  2006 initrd-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.img
> drwx------  2 root root   12288 Sep 18  2005 lost+found
> -rw-------  1 root root   23040 Jun 30 19:31 map.0301
> -rw-------  1 root root   43520 Sep 28  2006 map.1601
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    9371 Aug 13  2006 message
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root    9371 Aug 13  2006 message.ja
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root     640 Feb 21  2005 os2_d.b
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  731295 Jan 17  2006 System.map-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1469597 Jan 17  2006 vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
> 
> and grub
> [root@wb boot]# cd grub/
> [root@wb grub]# ls -l
> total 8
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   82 Sep 18  2005 device.map
> -rw-------  1 root root  566 Jun 19  2007 grub.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   11 Sep 18  2005 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 3605 Aug 13  2006 splash.xpm.gz
> 
> Maybe it's helpful ..
> 
> Rickard Osser schreef:
> > Hi Taco,
> >
> > do you use software raid on that machine?
> > If so I've created a script that rewrites the grub correctly on every
> > shutdown that I posted on the list about a month ago.
> >
> > The problem is that mkinitrd and grub on centos4/rhel4 doesn't really
> > support /boot running with raid1. This means problems everytime there is
> > a kernel upgrade. I think it's fixed on centos5/rhel5.
> >
> > Hisao said he would incorporate the script in and update.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Rickard
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 15:53 +0200, Taco Scargo wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Recently one of my many BQ machines did not startup after a reboot (when a
> >> new kernel was installed).
> >>
> >> After investigation it seemed as if Grub was not started.
> >>
> >> I booted up with the Nuonce CD in rescue mode and reinstalled grub again.
> >> After the reboot, now grub started, but in the grub command prompt mode.
> >> When issuing the "configfile /grub/grub.conf" command, the config was loaded
> >> and the boot was succesfull.
> >>
> >> When rebooting again, grub did not start anymore.
> >> Lilo is not installed, so that is not the problem.
> >> I have never had this kind of problem, and I have tried a lot to fix this.
> >>
> >> If someone ever had a similar problem and was able to fix it, please let me
> >> know.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Taco 
> >>
> >>     
> >
> >
> >