Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Jack Schneider wrote: > It booted to the correct grub menu then to Busy Box. I am thinking it > goes to BB because it can't find /var and or /usr on the md1/sda5 LVM > partition. Very likely. > I checked /proc/mdstat and lo & behold there was md1:active > with correct partitions and md0: active a

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:43:16 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > mdadm --stop /dev/md125 > > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 > > > --update=super-minor /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1 > > > > > > mdadm --stop /dev/126 > > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 > > > --update=

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Jack Schneider wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > mdadm --stop /dev/md125 > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 --update=super-minor /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1 > > > > mdadm --stop /dev/126 > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 --update=super-minor /dev/sda5 /dev/sdc5 > > Bob, a small glitch. mdadm:/dev/sda1 exists

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:50:12 -0600 Jack Schneider wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:29 -0700 > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > But, and this is an important but, did you previously add the > > > > new disk array to the LVM volume group on the above

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:29 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > But, and this is an important but, did you previously add the new > > > disk array to the LVM volume group on the above array? If so > > > then you are not done yet. The LVM volume group won

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Jack Schneider wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Note that if you add new disk to the lvm root volume group then you > > also need to rebuild the initrd or your system won't be able to > > assemble the array at boot time and will fail to boot. (Saying that > > mostly for people who find this in the a

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:29 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote:> will be well.. > > I have my fingers crossed for you that it will all be okay. > > > I have not done the things you have suggested above. I'll wait for > > your response and then go!!! > > Plea

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Jack Schneider wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > But, and this is an important but, did you previously add the new disk > > array to the LVM volume group on the above array? If so then you are > > not done yet. The LVM volume group won't be able to assemble without > > the new disk. If you did then

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:42:49 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack, > > With your pastebin information and the mdstat information (that last > information in your mail and pastebins was critical good stuff) and > I found this old posting from you too: :-) > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/200

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Jack, With your pastebin information and the mdstat information (that last information in your mail and pastebins was critical good stuff) and I found this old posting from you too: :-) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/10/msg00808.html With all of that I deduce the following: /dev/

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-16 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:57:46 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > 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.