On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:23:11AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > used or formatted. I configured a new array using Disk Utility from a > live Ubuntu CD. That's where I screwed up... The end result was the > names of the arrays were changed on the working 2 drives. IE: /dev/md0 > to /dev/126 and /dev/md1 became md127. Strangely the md2 array which I > setup on the added drives remains as /dev/md2. My root partition is/was > on /dev/md0. The result is that Grub2 fails to boot the / array. I have > tried three REINSTALLING GRUB procedures from Sysresccd online docs > and many others GNU.org, Ubuntu etc. The errors occur when I try to > mount the partition with the /boot directory. 'Complains about file > system type 'linux_raid_member' This machine has worked for 3 years > flawlessly.. Can anyone help with this? Or point me to a place or link > to get this fixed. Google doesn't help... I can't find a > article/posting where it ended successfully. > I have considered a full reinstall after Squeeze goes stable, since this > O/S is a crufty upgrade from sarge over time. But useless now.. > You might want to try configuring grub and fstab to use UUID's instead of /dev/mdX. That removes the possibility that the kernel will change the mdX designations.
Use blkid to find out the UUID's of your partitions. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110113224353.ga2...@aurora.owens.net