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Date:  Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:53:30 +0200
From:  Dennis <dennis (at mark) mixfans.org>
Subject:  [coba-e:13958] Re: Grub problems
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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cat /dev/mdstat does not work
this works:
[root@wb boot]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 hdc2[1] hda2[0]
      6289344 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md2 : active raid1 hdc3[1] hda3[0]
      1052160 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md3 : active raid1 hdc5[1] hda5[0]
      191695488 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md0 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hda1[0]
      104320 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/md1                /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/md0                /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/md3                /home                   ext3    
defaults,usrquota,grpquota        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/md2                swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdd                /media/cdrom            auto    
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0



Rickard Osser schreef:
> 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 
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>   
>>>       
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