[CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Chan pisze: grub cannot find its second stage. Are you booting from a mirrored partition? Yes What could be a solution? And what could have happen upon the reboot? That is weird. I just re-installed centos5 and it is now booting properly. What

[CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Chan pisze: grub cannot find its second stage. Are you booting from a mirrored partition? Yes What could be a solution? And what could have happen upon the reboot? That is weird. I just re-installed centos5 and it is now booting properly. What

Re: [CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Ugo Bellavance wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Chan pisze: grub cannot find its second stage. Are you booting from a mirrored partition? Yes What could be a solution? And what could have happen upon the reboot? That is weird. I just re-installed centos5 and it is now

Re: [CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Ugo Bellavance wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Chan pisze: grub cannot find its second stage. Are you booting from a mirrored partition? Yes What could be a solution? And what could have happen upon the reboot? That is weird. I just re-installed centos5 and it is now

[CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Christopher Chan wrote: Ugo Bellavance wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Chan pisze: grub cannot find its second stage. Are you booting from a mirrored partition? Yes What could be a solution? And what could have happen upon the reboot? That is weird. I just re-installed

[CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Christopher Chan wrote: Ugo Bellavance wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Chan pisze: grub cannot find its second stage. Are you booting from a mirrored partition? Yes What could be a solution? And what could have happen upon the reboot? That is weird. I just re-installed

Re: [CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Christopher Chan wrote: Is there a way to know where grub is installed? I have a few servers running in RAID 1 software for /boot, I gotta fix this. If I can't tell whether it is installed or not, is it dangerous to re-install it using the command above? It won't hurt to re-install. The

Re: [CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread Brett Moss
--- Ugo Bellavance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Ugo Bellavance wrote: Hi, I have a Dell poweredge 400SC here with an LSI scsi card. I installed Centos4 a while ago and put it in a datacenter. I rebooted many weeks after, and the machine didn't come

[CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 11/29/2007 7:53 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: Christopher Chan wrote: Is there a way to know where grub is installed? I have a few servers running in RAID 1 software for /boot, I gotta fix this. If I can't tell whether it is installed or not, is it dangerous to re-install it

Re: [CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Scott Silva wrote: It won't hurt to re-install. The tricky part is knowing where the 2nd drive in the set will appear when the first fails so you can do the configuration correctly. This isn't as tricky as you think. It just takes some thought. Yes, but you need to think from the bios

Re: [CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread John Newbigin
My dell SC430 came with instructions on how to set up booting from software raid under RHEL. I can't find an online copy but this might help http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-July/008898.html Normally before I move a machine from testing to production I like to do some

Re: [CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Is there a way to know where grub is installed? I have a few servers running in RAID 1 software for /boot, I gotta fix this. If I can't tell whether it is installed or not, is it dangerous to re-install it using the command above? So long as you have all the necessary grub files, there

Re: [CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Looks good. The important part is that it references the drive when doing the installation. What do you mean? The problem is that grub stage1 is loaded but its instructions for locating stage2 point it to another disk which may or may not be at the location stored. That was the problem

[CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-28 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Ugo Bellavance wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Ugo Bellavance wrote: Hi, I have a Dell poweredge 400SC here with an LSI scsi card. I installed Centos4 a while ago and put it in a datacenter. I rebooted many weeks after, and the machine didn't come back up. So I went to the datacenter

Re: [CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-28 Thread Christopher Chan
grub cannot find its second stage. Are you booting from a mirrored partition? Yes What could be a solution? And what could have happen upon the reboot? That is weird. I just re-installed centos5 and it is now booting properly. What could I do to avoid this situation in the future?

[CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-28 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Ugo Bellavance wrote: Ugo Bellavance wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Ugo Bellavance wrote: Hi, I have a Dell poweredge 400SC here with an LSI scsi card. I installed Centos4 a while ago and put it in a datacenter. I rebooted many weeks after, and the machine didn't come back up. So I

Re: [CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

2007-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christopher Chan pisze: grub cannot find its second stage. Are you booting from a mirrored partition? Yes What could be a solution? And what could have happen upon the reboot? That is weird. I just re-installed centos5 and it is now booting properly. What could I do to avoid this