 | | | Boot Problem after Playing with Powervault | Boot Problem after Playing with Powervault 2006-09-24 - By karlp@(protected)
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On Fri, September 22, 2006 2:51 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 13:54 -0600, karlp@(protected) wrote:
>> Hmmmm. I believe responding to one's own emails is a sign of severe social
>> deprivation. Go home. Kiss your wife!
>
> Not married. Never have been (not for a lack of trying).
Well, I'm annoying...
>
>>
>> It's also a sign of typos... Take your pick.
>
> Typos. And old age! :-)
I didn't want to bring that up...
>
>>
>> On Fri, September 22, 2006 1:31 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 12:19 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 10:47 -0700, Bret Stern wrote:
>> >> > So..
>> >> >
>> >> > Last night I added a recently purchased Dell Powervault 210s to my
>> >> > Dell 2450 running Fedora 5.
>> >> >
>> >> > As I browsed the uninitialized drives on the PowerVault, I
>> >> > accidentally/on purpose initialized a disk with a linux boot partition.
>> >> > It's just my tinkering habit.
>> >> >
>> >> > Now my system boots to grub> (that's it). Certainly I hosed
>> >> > my Grub boot.
>> >> >
>> >> > Where i'm at..
>> >> >
>> >> > I found that there were two bootable partitions on the machine.
>> >> > One on sda1, and one on sdb1. I toggled the boot flag on sdb1 (off)
>> >> > because I only run Linux and sda1 is the logical boot.
>> >> > (Is the above correct thinking). I can always restore the flag.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > I have booted my machine using the Fedora cd and typee "linux rescue".
>> >> >
>> >> > This found my install and I have chosen to "chroot /mnt/sysimage".
>> >> >
>> >> > I can see all my data.
>> >> >
>> >> > When I tried "grub-install /dev/sda", I get the following.
>> >> > "/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly"
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > What's my next step (maybe I should get into landscaping) ?
>> >>
>> >> Well, gee. My first guess is that you're using a separate /boot
>> >> partition and it's not mounted, so grub-install can't even find the
>> >> stage 1 boot code. After the "chmod /mnt/sysimage", try doing a
>> >
>> > Grr! "chroot /mnt/sysimage". Fingers not working well today!
>> >
>> >>
>> >> # mount -a
>> >>
>> >> That will force all of the other mounts that are normally done in your
>> >> operating environment, including mounting /boot if it _is_ a separate
>> >> partition.
>> >>
>> >> Once that's done, verify that your /boot/grub/stage1 file is 512 bytes
>> >> in length. If it is, then try your "grub-install /dev/sda" again and
>> >> see if it goes OK. If it does, then enter "exit" twice (first to get
>> >> out of the chroot environment, second to exit the rescue boot), pop out
>> >> the CD and see if she'll boot up.
>> >>
>> >> As for landscaping, I hate raking leaves and mowing lawns (did enough
>> >> of that when I was a teen 40 years ago). I have a gardener. :-)
>
>> --
>> karl
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