Chris Kloiber of Red Hat Enterprise Support gave another suggestion
(attached). I was thinking the same thing although I thought you tried
this already. I can SSH into the box and transfer the GRUB to the MBR
of your SCSI array if you want.
Thanks a ton, Warren. I am going to piddle with it this morning. If I have listened better to Eric last night, I might have seen this.
From: Chris Kloiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri May 24, 2002 09:21:10 PM Pacific/Honolulu
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [luau] bootable raid and the MBR
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The boot record is on the disconnected IDE drive. Boot from it,
reconfigure GRUB or LILO to install a boot record on the MBR of the
array, and write it there. Make a boot floppy just in case, then power
down and remove the IDE drive and try rebooting from the Hardware RAID
array.
The simplicity pains me. Why is brilliance always so simple?
Adaptec says that it is supposed to boot and there must be something
wrong with the mboard. Tyan says they get this alot and that I need to
make sure my controller is BBS or something like that, compliant. I
wrote the acronym down at work, but I am not there. Apparently the
controller is compliant, that's why I can see it specifically in Tyan's
bios boot order. The problem here may not be with either. The problem
may be with scott :-)
I have a question after all this, I think. How can I put the MBR on the
RAID array? I have never had to "put" and MBR anywhere, but perhaps I
must boot from a floppy and format the mbr or something. I don't think
that I can boot with a win98 floppy and run fdisk mbr to do this. Is
there something comically easy that I am missing? Does any wise soul
have a suggestion or some insight into this? You know, come to think of
it. I did not try to boot with another installation CD. Surely this
couldn't be an issue, could it?
Never tried it with grub yet, but with LILO you edit the first line of
/etc/lilo.conf (may be /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda in 7.3) to tell it where
the bootloader should be installed. Save the file and run 'lilo -v -v'
Wow. I curse Scott for not looking at this. Curse Scott. :-) Praise to Warren and his Wise Friend. I have Learned.
