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". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimgop7xkwtramp5uejfe1aq9yikimiazkvuw...@mail.gmail.com