Re: Boot fails from one of the drives cos it's not an ext4 filesystem.

[Richard Gomes <rgomes.info@gmail.com>]

Hello Wilson,

Thanks a lot for your answer. The issue is now solved, actually.

Majordomo refused my previous post, again! :( ... when I inform it was
solved.
[ It's really annoying this thing to have to remember to force messages
as text-only :( ]

The solution, as Robert suggested was

      # grub-install /dev/sdb

Thanks a lot :)

Richard Gomes
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On 31/01/14 09:52, Wilson Jonathan wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 21:08 +0000, Richard Gomes wrote:
>> [ 3rd time I'm trying to post this! :(  This Majordomo sucks :( ]
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in RAID1.
>>
>> I've discovered that I can boot from partition /dev/sda1 but not from
>> /dev/sdb1.
>>
>> Apparently, both disks have equivalent partition tables:
>>
>>     # sfdisk -l /dev/sda
>>
>>     Disk /dev/sda: 121601 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
>>     Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting
>>     from 0
>>
>>        Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
>>     /dev/sda1   *      0+     60-     61-    487424   fd  Linux raid
>>     autodetect
>>     /dev/sda2         60+   7841-   7781-  62499840   fd  Linux raid
>>     autodetect
>>     /dev/sda3       7841+ 121601- 113760- 913773568   fd  Linux raid
>>     autodetect
>>     /dev/sda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
>>
>>
>>     # sfdisk -l /dev/sdb
>>
>>     Disk /dev/sdb: 121601 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
>>     Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting
>>     from 0
>>
>>        Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
>>     /dev/sdb1   *      0+     60-     61-    487424   fd  Linux raid
>>     autodetect
>>     /dev/sdb2         60+   7841-   7781-  62499840   fd  Linux raid
>>     autodetect
>>     /dev/sdb3       7841+ 121601- 113760- 913773568   fd  Linux raid
>>     autodetect
>>     /dev/sdb4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
>>
>>
>>
>> But /parted/ tells me a different story.
>> This is the culprit: /dev/sdb1 is not known as ext4, as it should be.
>>
>>     # parted -l
>>     Model: ATA ST1000DM003-9YN1 (scsi)
>>     Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
>>     Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
>>     Partition Table: msdos
>>
>>     Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
>>      1      1049kB  500MB   499MB   primary  ext4         boot, raid
>>      2      500MB   64.5GB  64.0GB  primary               raid
>>      3      64.5GB  1000GB  936GB   primary               raid
>>
>>
>>     Model: ATA ST1000DM003-9YN1 (scsi)
>>     Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB
>>     Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
>>     Partition Table: msdos
>>
>>     Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
>>      1      1049kB  500MB   499MB   primary               boot, raid
>>      2      500MB   64.5GB  64.0GB  primary               raid
>>      3      64.5GB  1000GB  936GB   primary               raid
> As far as I know, the flags are redundant to a degree; although they
> "may" be used as a hint.
>
> Making a drive bootable requires a boot sector loader of some form (as
> mentioned in Roberts post).
>
> If you can output the result of  cat /proc/mdstat and also the mdadm
> outputs as suggested by Robert then a more informed response can be
> given.
>
>>
>> What would be a recommended way to fix this issue?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>