[mythtv-users] Grub problem - or I have a special place in my version of hell reserved for Seagate

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Simon,

Wednesday, August 3, 2016, 9:33:50 PM, you wrote:

> Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

>> When you boot from raid you must copy your boot record to both disks.

> Yes, and I'm sure I've done that.

> AIUI with md raid1 and metadata format 0.9, either member of the
> disk can be read as the filesystem in it's own right - that and Grub
> is supposed to understand raid now. I've tested in the past doing :
> grub-install /dev/sda
> grub-install /dev/sdb
> which should install the bootloader on both disks. update-grub
> should take care of putting the magic incantations (eg insmod raid) into the grub config.
> Something I've definitely tested that in the past - one server I
> set up at work had 5 members in the raid1 boot volume, just because
> I had 5 disks and it didn't make sense not to just put them all in the array.

> It's really annoying as many times I've cloned a system by
> partitioning the disk, making the filesystems, copying all the
> files, mounting things like /sys, /proc and /dev in the new root,
> chroot, and grub-update then grub-install.
> This one is resisting all my attempts to boot it.

> I have to admit my post was partly as I just had to let out my frustration somewhere !

> I think the next step will be to copy the boot and root filesystems
> to raw partitions on a spare disk, then get that booting, and then
> try to sort things out from there. It won't be tonight as I got home
> to find no carpet in the bathroom as one of the taps sprung a leak at the connector.
> So I've just spent the last hour or so on my back sorting things
> out properly. TBH it needed doing as the taps were fitted with
> plastic flange nuts and one had split - as they do being completely
> carp - leaving the tap loose and disturbing the joint with the
> twisting. So I'd already got some new brass nuts and washers etc.

> _______________________________________________

Could it be that the remaining disk that won't boot has a bad sector
at the start! ;-(
Everything seems to go bad at your side. :-(



Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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