Re: Boot issue, new installation of Lenny with mirrored /boot and mirrored lvm2
Hi,
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 12:53 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
>
> I have 2x IBM xSeries 346 servers, one has a RAID card (let's call this
> machine "346a") and the other only has onboard SCSI (346b).
>
> [..] it stops at a
> special initramfs sh after giving up on the lvm volume group (not found) ...
> from there I can activate the md0 and md1 mirrors and activate the lvm2
> logical volumes, I then exit the sh and boot continues as normal.
>
> I've checked the kernel and module files for each machine, they are 100%
> identical. I've checked all files in /boot and /boot/grub and the
> differences don't give me any clues.
Your problem is probably inside your /boot/initrd... file
You might want to "rebuild" it, using update-initramfs
Also, did you read /usr/share/doc/mdadm/rootraiddoc.97.html (which is
outdated, but gives good overview)
Hope this helps,
Franklin
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