Re: Problems installing grub/lilo with RAID1 on /
Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> writes:
>>Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Felix Natter
>>> <felix.natter@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> When trying to install lilo (with the debian-installler), I get
>>>> "inconsistent raid information" (but the RAID1 (2x 208G) was
>>>> created with debian-installer):
>>>>
>>>> Jun 5 19:22:00 in-target: Running lilo... Jun 5 19:22:01
>>>> in-target: Fatal: Jun 5 19:22:01 in-target: Inconsistent Raid
>>>> version information on /dev/md0 (RV=0.90 GAI=1.2)
>>>
>>> What do RV and GAI mean? I've googled both and not foudn anything to
>>> help. "0.90" and "1.2" are mdraid metadata versions. Were these
>>> disks previously in another array and do you now have two types of
>>> metada on them?
>
>> No, I did not change any hardware config before reinstalling with
>> squeeze. I also had a RAID1 root fs with those two disks before.
hi Tom,
> There may be more to your problem than this but you definitely have a
> metadata problem.
>
> Some more googing yielded RV and GAI as "raid version" and "get array
> info" so your previous mdraid metadata must've been v0.90 and you're
> new metadata's the Squeeze d-i default, v1.2.
>
> Since they're written to different parts of the HD, they can co-exist
> and must be confusing grub and lilo.
>
> I only know how to remove all metadata (with "--zero-superblock") so I
> have no idea how to fix your problem short of backing up your install,
> recreating your array, and restoring the install... Sorry.
No change after I called:
mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sda2
mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb2
Next I tried to create the array directly with mdadm and bypassing
partman (d-i partitioner). That way, I can install grub when creating
the array with old metadata:
$ mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda2 \
/dev/sdb2 --metadata=0.9
However, when I reboot the system, I get:
-----------
Gave up waiting for root device. Common Problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline): check root=, rootdelay=
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
- ALERT! /dev/md0 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
-----------
Here is the fstab from the installed system:
-----------
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/md0 during installation
UUID=0a94e4b3-9b3b-4290-9fa3-9e8ed167136a / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=ce46b046-fce5-4298-a06e-2b3680406eaa none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
-----------
Could it be that the /dev/md0 I created manually is not permanent
because d-i didn't create it (although the manually created /dev/md0
could be seen in partman)?
Thank you!
--
Felix Natter
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