The consensus of people whom I've talked to is that, at the point where grub
freezes, there's a problem with misidentification of hard drives when the
USB drive is present (in essence, the USB drive is being mistaken for a
member of the RAID-1 array; when the drive is absent, this mistake is not
made).
When grub2 is used with a RAID-1 array configured via mdadm, how do I
determine which drives grub2 will identify as being in the RAID array? Is
there some configuration information somewhere that I can see which will
tell me this?
Thanks in advance,
-PT
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Peter Tenenbaum
peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there --
I am running squeeze with a non-RAID boot partition and a RAID-1 main
partition. I use GRUB2 as my bootloader. My problem is the following:
When I have my Seagate FreeAgent USB hard drive connected to the computer,
it's unable to boot, instead it hangs with the Welcome to GRUB! message on
the screen. Through copious use of echo statements, I've traced the problem
down to the following code block near the top of grub.cfg:
insmod raid
insmod mdraid
insmod part_msdos
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
The first statement executes correctly; it hangs while trying to execute
the second statement, insmod mdraid.
Any idea what the problem might be, and how to cure it?
Thanks in advance,
-PT
