On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:43:53 -0500 Rob Owens <row...@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?
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