On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Jack Schneider <p...@dp-indexing.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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?
So you have LVM over RAID, not just RAID.

For grub2, you're only supposed to edit "/etc/default/grub".


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