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
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >