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Date:  Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:36:56 +0200
From:  "Taco Scargo" <taco (at mark) scargo.nl>
Subject:  [coba-e:13963] Re: Grub problems
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
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No, actually most other (working) machines are.

This is a Tyan GT-10

Taco
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc." 
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Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 7:46 PM
Subject: [coba-e:13960] Re: Grub problems


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> 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
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>> Hi Rickard,
>>
>>> do you use software raid on that machine?
>> Yes I do.
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>>> 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
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> I've had grub problems on Supermicro machines. So, I just use Lilo  now.
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> Is this machine a Supermicro  ?
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