[WBEL-users] Grub and raid - Solved

[Josep M.]

Yes,but if You do from knoppix or similar the first works if chroot
because grub takes stage2 from /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/stage2  ,I
think that this is the difference.

Josep


> Good grief, it worked! The syntax is wrong at that site, but it worked
> after
> repairing the syntax.
>
> Bad syntax:
>
> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,0)/grub/stage1 (hd0)
> (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 p /grub/grub.conf
>
> Good syntax:
>
> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage1 (hd0)
> (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> Note that the paths need to include the '/boot' portion of the location to
> avoid getting a "File not found" error. But both hard drives are bootable
> from eith

er IDE controller location after applying that command.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Josep M." <websurfer@navegants.com>
> To: "Thrift Internet Service" <thrift@thriftinternet.com>
> Cc: "Simone" <simone72@email.it>; <whitebox-users@beau.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 10:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Grub and raid - Solved
>
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Read this,is the two first commands for make both disks bootables.
>>
>> http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.d.stribblehill/mirrored_grub.html
>>
>> Josep
>>
>>
>> > Doesn't anyone know how to recover from a failed master using software
>> > RAID?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   ----- Original Message -----
>> >   From: Thrift Internet Service
>> >   To: Simone ; whitebox-users@beau.org
>> >   Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 12:49 PM
>> >   Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Grub and raid - Solved
>> >
>> >
>> >   I tried Fredrick Denny's recipe. I was able to recover from a failed
>> > slave drive and duplicate a new slave without a problem, but I can't
>> > seem to get the slave to be bootable after a failed master.
>> >
>> >   I moved the cable so the slave drive is now the master (/hde). I
>> boot
>> > with the install CD and go into 'linux rescue'. At the command prompt
>> I
>> > confirm that the drive is there with 'fdisk -l' and everything looks
>> > fine. Then I try to mount:
>> >
>> >   mount /dev/hde1 /mnt/fred
>> >
>> >   mount: Mounting /dev/hde1 on /mnt/fred failed: No such file or
>> > directory.
>> >
>> >   Of course there is no point in going any further. What happened when
> you
>> > simulated a master failure?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     ----- Original Message -----
>> >     From: Simone
>> >     To: whitebox-users@beau.org
>> >     Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:54 PM
>> >     Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Grub and raid - Solved
>> >
>> >
>> >     Hi list,
>> >     Thanks to  Frederick Denny document I figured it out.
>> >     To anyone it could interest, this works:
>> > http://www.freddenny.com/UNIX/linuxRAID.html
>> >
>> >     Thanks anyway to anyone who paid attention to my message.
>> >     Simone
>> >
>> >
>> >       ----- Original Message -----
>> >       From: Simone
>> >       To: whitebox-users@beau.org
>> >       Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:04 PM
>> >       Subject: [WBEL-users] Grub and raid
>> >
>> >
>> >       Hi, as usual, having a question....
>> >       Say I have a raid 1, disks A and B in mirroring, Say A dies, and
>> I
>> > replace it with C. How can I make grub write the MBR to C so that in
>> > case B also dies I can still boot from C?
>> >       Know it's a simple question, but I tried grub-install /dev/hdc
>> or
>> > /dev/md0 (where the boot partition is) and I just get errors. I am
>> > now trying to move to lilo, but I am scared to write the MBR of the
>> > last good disk I have.
>> >
>> >       Help really appreciated, it looks like I'll be working all night
>> > :-(
>> >
>> >       Thanks,
>> >       Simone
>> >
>> >
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