Summary: | Fails to load GRUB with RAID 1, Screen says "GRUB" and then noting more | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Thomas G <thomas> |
Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Thomas G
2009-05-30 10:49:26 UTC
Well, it sounds like it is grub having problems with your RAID, rather than the kernel, so your kernel configuration is probably just fine. The liveCD doesn't need to access RAID until the kernel is booted, so that's why it does ok. What version of grub are you using? What does grub-install have to say when you run it? Hello, That sounds logical. I've read some more about the RAID features and that the software raid is recommended sometimes. I'd say that having the RAID as close to the hardware as possible is the best (which is firmware/bios in my case) but I don't know. I've installed sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9 First I ran grub-install /dev/sda and I got this result: --- (chroot) livecd / # grub-install /dev/sda Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Unknown partition table signature Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb (chroot) livecd / # --- Which I thought was a little bit ambigous... First "Unknown partition table signature" and then "No error reported." Also I wouldn't expect to see (hd1) /dev/sdb since it should be on a RAID. Then I tried to install it manually to see if I got the same message - I didn't it just said it completed successfully. Your conclusion sounds, again, logical but I guess again that this isn't a bug - but how do I solve it? Best regards, /Thomas You're right, unfortunately this isn't really a bug. Your best bet is to ask around on forums, the gentoo forums [1] may have seen this issue before. It looks as though [2] might be directly relevant. Closing as INVALID in that it is a problem, but not a bug the developers can solve... [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/ [2] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-697054-highlight-grub+bios+raid+1.html |