On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:31:25 -0800
John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:

>On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:01:28 -0800
>drew wymore <[email protected]> dijo:
>
>>mdadm --query should be able to get you the array name at least if my
>>interpretation of the man page is correct. In terms of which device
>>has the correct boot information it might be a matter of trail and
>>error, if you unplug sdb and works then you know that logically it
>>should be sda that has the correct boot information.
>
>Well, mdadm --query fails because I didn't specify a device. Of
>course, that is the whole problem. 

The correct command is "cat /proc/mdstat," since the arrays are
maintained in mdstat, which is just a text file. 

Turns out my arrays are named md0 to md3, and the query command goes
"mdadm --query /dev/md0" etc., although --detail gives better results.
And it appears that md1 is the bad one. 

The md1 array is composed of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1, but the --detail
command says that /dev/sda1 has been removed. 

I'm trying to get my head around why removing /dev/sda1 would give me
the symptoms I am having. The only problem is that each dist-upgrade
installs a new kernel option in the Grub menu, but I cannot boot to
anything but the last Hardy kernel. Selecting any of the newer kernels
gives me a Grub error -15. So what did these dist-upgrades do, write a
kernel to a non-existent disk?
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