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Date:  Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:46:15 -0700
From:  "Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc." <kenmarcus (at mark) precisionweb.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:13960] Re: Grub problems
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taco Scargo" <taco (at mark) scargo.nl>
To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 7:42 AM
Subject: [coba-e:13957] Re: Grub problems


> Hi Rickard,
>
>> do you use software raid on that machine?
> Yes I do.
>
>> 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.
> I have looked at the script and it does not do anything different than I 
> did manually when diagnosing.
>
>> 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.
> Most of my machines have a software-raid setup (including /boot) and none 
> of them have this problem.
> Thjs machine has not had this problem before as well.
>
> So the problem I am experiencing is not exactly the same.
> I also would like to know how it comes that the MBR gets changed on reboot 
> (what script does that).
>
> Taco


I've had grub problems on Supermicro machines. So, I just use Lilo  now.

Is this machine a Supermicro  ?


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