Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:43:53 -0500
Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:23:11AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote:
> >
> > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was
> > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been
> > used or formatted. I configured a new array using Disk Utility from
> > a live Ubuntu CD. That's where I screwed up... The end result was
> > the names of the arrays were changed on the working 2 drives.
> > IE: /dev/md0 to /dev/126 and /dev/md1 became md127. Strangely the
> > md2 array which I setup on the added drives remains as /dev/md2. My
> > root partition is/was on /dev/md0. The result is that Grub2 fails
> > to boot the / array. I have tried three REINSTALLING GRUB
> > procedures from Sysresccd online docs and many others GNU.org,
> > Ubuntu etc. The errors occur when I try to mount the partition with
> > the /boot directory. 'Complains about file system type
> > 'linux_raid_member' This machine has worked for 3 years
> > flawlessly.. Can anyone help with this? Or point me to a place or
> > link to get this fixed. Google doesn't help... I can't find a
> > article/posting where it ended successfully. I have considered a
> > full reinstall after Squeeze goes stable, since this O/S is a
> > crufty upgrade from sarge over time. But useless now..
> >
> You might want to try configuring grub and fstab to use UUID's instead
> of /dev/mdX. That removes the possibility that the kernel will change
> the mdX designations.
>
> Use blkid to find out the UUID's of your partitions.
>
> -Rob
>
>
Thanks for the reply, Rob. What grub file do I change?
grub.cfg? grub *.map? I seem to have UUIDs for both disks and
LVM partitions, change both?
TIA, Jack
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