[PLUG] SATA with Linux RAID

Josh josh at emediatedesigns.com
Mon Feb 27 10:03:28 UTC 2006



Josh wrote:
>
>
> Josh wrote:
>>
>> Elliott Mitchell wrote:
>>>> From: Josh <josh at emediatedesigns.com>
>>>> So, I bought all new parts for a server running 3 SATA drives to 
>>>> make a RAID 5 system.  This was going to be a software raid with 
>>>> CentOS 4.2.  The install went well.  It found the drives and 
>>>> installed a RAID system.  I actually installed about 3 times now.  
>>>> Tried LVM on RAID 5 with RAID 1 for /boot.  That didn't work so I 
>>>> rebuilt with RAID 5 and RAID 1 only and that didn't work.  What I'm 
>>>> seeing is that when I reboot I only get a flashing cursor after it 
>>>> gets past POST.   I thought since the installer recognized the hard 
>>>> drives and the BIOS has an option to boot to the 3rd IDE Master 
>>>> (SATA drives) that I'd be fine.  Well, it turns out that Linux or 
>>>> CentOS is looking for something a bit different.
>>>> So my questions would be:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Do you know what would cause this behavior
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>  
>>>> Thanks for any suggestions.  I've been reading all over the Web for 
>>>> the last 5 hours and no concrete solutions so far.     
>>>
>>> The boot loader isn't working. Likely it wasn't installed, or perhaps
>>> some bit of weird installation killed it. LILO? GRUB? Do you need to
>>> manually install the loader?
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>> Just thought of that and ran the rescue disk and it mounted the 
>> system just fine.  So, yep the boot loader is screwed.  It is grub.  
>> How do I go about finding out what is wrong or do I just need to 
>> reinstall the boot loader?
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Josh
>>
> Also wondering now if Grub doesn't have the SATA_ild driver to see the 
> Hard Drives.  That or from what I read it is not in the MBR.  Do think 
> that is correct?
> Josh
>
So I found this discussion:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Linux/Linux_Administration/Q_21647293.html

Looks like what I need.  I'll give it a shot and see what happens. 

Josh




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