From: Ben Williams <benw@plasticboy.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RAID becomes un-bootable after failure
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 10:55:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40BDEA63.5040001@plasticboy.com> (raw)
I have a 2-disk RAID-1 that I set up using the Red Hat 9 installer. My
problem is that pretty much any simulated drive failure makes the system
unbootable. If I power down the machine and remove drive 1, the system
can't find any bootable device. If I set a drive faulty using the
RAIDtools, re-add it, and let the recovery process run the boot loader
seems to get overwritten and I end up with a system hung at "GRUB
loading stage2". Can anyone shed some light on what's going on here? My
guess is that GRUB isn't installed on drive 2, so that removing drive 1
or recovering drive 1 from drive 2 leads to no boot loader, but
shouldn't GRUB have been copied to drive 2 in the mirroring process? How
can I configure my system so that it will still be bootable after a
drive failure?
Thanks for your help.
next reply other threads:[~2004-06-02 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-02 14:55 Ben Williams [this message]
2004-06-02 15:11 ` RAID becomes un-bootable after failure me
2004-06-02 15:30 ` Dick Streefland
2004-06-02 17:57 ` Michael
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