Hi Folks, I've been dealing with a frustratingly vexing issue for a while, and am at a loss on where to go next.
Basically, We have a 8x 3TB drive system that I'm trying to install Wheezy on. During the install each drive is partitioned with a 1MB BIOS Boot partition, followed by a RAID partition taking up the rest of the space. The 8 RAID partitions are made into a RAID6 array (8 active, 0 spare), which is used for a volume group. Two logical volumes (for now) are in there, for / and swap. (/ is ext4) When ever I try to boot the system, I'm stuck at the grub rescue prompt after Grub spits out "error: no such disk.". Doing ls shows all eight drives (hd0) as well as their associated partitions (hd3,gpt2). Unlike the multiple VMs of this setup that I've created on my laptop, there are no (md) or (Logical-Volume-Name) entries. Prefix and Root are set to (LV-OS), and attempts to set them to other values fail. I've also attempted an identical install, but with a 200MB Raid partition as the second partition, RAID1'd with ext2 /boot. No difference. (Actually, the installer fails to use it. I've manually copied the files and edited fstab. Updating/reinstalling grub afterwards gets the same result.) Every VM I've created works with no problems, but it always fails on the actual hardware. Every theory I can come up with should also fail on the VMs. Is there a way to make sure the bios boot partition is being used? Would the fact that the physical install puts the usb drive as sda be an issue? I've tried editing device.map and updating/reinstalling grub, but no dice. It seems to me that for some reason Grub can't get to it's raid related modules. I've checked /boot/grub/grub.cfg. The auto-generated file does contain all the insmod lines for raid, raid6rec,mdraid1x, lvm, a bunch of part_gpt, and ext2. Love to hear any ideas, no matter how far-fetched. -PaulNM -- 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/527ea37d.7050...@paulscrap.com