Re: Understanding output from update-grub with md

2014-02-14 Thread Ari Epstein
Solved this one. Turns out I just needed to do grub-install on the old partitions. They must have had a stale version of grub. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Ari Epstein wrote: > Hi all, > > Trying this again. I have a server with / (including /boot) on a md, > RAID1 devi

Re: GRUB seems to confuse md boot device and its spares

2014-02-09 Thread Ari Epstein
missing. error: superfluous RAID member (2 found). error: superfluous RAID member (2 found). error: disk missing. error: disk missing. error: superfluous RAID member (2 found). error: superfluous RAID member (2 found). error: disk missing. error: disk missing. done On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Ari

GRUB seems to confuse md boot device and its spares

2014-02-09 Thread Ari Epstein
I'm having peculiar difficulties getting grub to boot from a RAID1 md. The machine has four drives, and the md (which contains / as well as /boot) is on sdc1 and sdd1. sda1 and sdb1 were once configured as spares though at the moment they are not connected to the raid at all. The grub.cfg has th

Re: Diagnosing kernel panic involving fglrx

2013-06-04 Thread Ari Epstein
One change I made shortly before the problems started that might be relevant: I enabled i386 architecture support (it's amd64 laptop). On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Ari Epstein wrote: > Hi all, > > Got a new laptop and installed wheezy a few weeks ago. I noticed the HDMI &

[SOLVED] Re: libvirt/kvm virtual hosts unbootable after upgrading hypervisor to wheezy from squeeze

2013-05-15 Thread Ari Epstein
Thanks Zenaan. Had a lucky break: I changed the virtual disks from SCSI to SATA using virt-manager and suddenly they were bootable again. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I can only give wild suggests: read errata; use (low-level) tools to > check disk availability; tr

Re: libvirt/kvm virtual hosts unbootable after upgrading hypervisor to wheezy from squeeze

2013-05-15 Thread Ari Epstein
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Ari Epstein wrote: > Hi all, > &g

libvirt/kvm virtual hosts unbootable after upgrading hypervisor to wheezy from squeeze

2013-05-15 Thread Ari Epstein
. I believe I have a pretty plain vanilla libvirt setup. The hosts are all ext4 on kpartx on LVM. No settings changed during the upgrade. Any advice appreciated! -- Ari Epstein 311 W Buffalo St Ithaca, NY 14850-4123 aepstein...@gmail.com 607.222.5116

Re: HELP! Boot stops at chkrootfs.sh and can't fsck: /sbin/fsck: cannot execute binary file

2008-01-31 Thread Ari Epstein
.121' ] # # Behaviour # on_poweroff = 'destroy' on_reboot = 'restart' on_crash= 'restart' On Jan 31, 2008, at 7:47 PM, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Ari Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.01.1056 +1100]: Console output is as follows: Can

HELP! Boot stops at chkrootfs.sh and can't fsck: /sbin/fsck: cannot execute binary file

2008-01-31 Thread Ari Epstein
xen-amd64/ modules.dep: No such file or directory modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-xen-amd64/ modules.dep: No such file or directory bash: /sbin/fsck: cannot execute binary file - Ari Epstein Assistant Director Office of Assemblies 109 Day