On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Jack Schneider <p...@dp-indexing.com> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:16:37 -0500 > Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > > [BIG SNIP] > >> >> 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. > > Well, not really, not all of the disks are LVM2. The first two > disks raid1 /dev/sda & /dev/sdc are partitioned with 1 small > /(root) partition, /dev/md0 -> 10 gigs. The balance of the disk > is /dev/md1 under LVM2 with seven logical volumes. /home,/var,/swap > etc The next two disks sdb and sdd are raid1 as /dev/md2 which I > need to use as an extension of the LVM.
So you don't need to have any lvm reference in grub.cfg. > More info, when I boot the machine, I see the "GRUB loading. WELCOME to > GRUB!" info. Then it enters the rescue mode with a "grub rescue>" > prompt. So the kernel is found/finding the / partition. Right? For "grub rescue", check out http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#GRUB-only-offers-a-rescue-shell -- 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/aanlktik3whb1d5fhvp4xsyutfqfpbrr9em8xr8xs8...@mail.gmail.com
