On 8/7/2015 8:35 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
I tried the grub commands you gave and still got the same results. I also
have a copy of the SuperGrub disc, which is supposed to be able to fix grub
problems. It can boot the drive, but it can't fix i
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> I tried the grub commands you gave and still got the same results. I also
> have a copy of the SuperGrub disc, which is supposed to be able to fix grub
> problems. It can boot the drive, but it can't fix it. If nothing else, I
> guess I could
On 8/6/2015 5:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
Ok. I'll give that a try tomorrow. Just a couple of questions.
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (hd0,1) /grub/stage2 p
(hd0,1)/grub/grub.conf
It looks like this mixes paths relativ
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Now I get to look back at OP's first email and see
> if he did this exact same thing already, and whether we've come full
> circle.
Shit. He did.
All I can think of is that either the GRUB/BIOS device designations
are wrong (they should be (h
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> I might try nerfing the parted and grub stage 1 bootloaders on disk2,
> and see if the grub shell (which I should still get to from disk 1)
> will let me install grub directly on these two drives properly.
OK I did that and this works.
## At
On 08/06/2015 02:19 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
stage 1 cannot point to another drive at all. It's sole purpose is to
find stage 2, which must be on the same drive. Stage 1.5 is optional,
and I've never seen it get used on Linux, mainly because in the time
of GRUB legacy, I never encountered an insta
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Gordon Messmer
> wrote:
>> On 08/05/2015 10:23 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>> Nothing about hd0 or hd1 gets baked into the bootloader code. It's an
>>> absolute reference to a physical drive at the moment in t
On 08/05/2015 04:41 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
I do not know why there's a duplication of the install command.
...
: Running... ['/sbin/grub', '--batch', '--no-floppy',
'--device-map=/boot/grub/device.map']
: grub> device (hd0) /dev/vdb
: grub> root (hd0,1)
: grub> install --stage2=/bo
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 08/05/2015 10:23 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> Nothing about hd0 or hd1 gets baked into the bootloader code. It's an
>> absolute reference to a physical drive at the moment in time the
>> command is made.
>
>
> Is that true? If I have a s
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 8/6/2015 4:39 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/6/2015 4:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey
wrote:
> Doing a new inst
Am 06.08.2015 um 22:43 schrieb Chris Murphy :
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Leon Fauster
> wrote:
>> Am 06.08.2015 um 22:21 schrieb Chris Murphy :
>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Sounds like a pain. I would just adapt the CentOS 6 program.log
>>> command
On 08/05/2015 10:23 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
Nothing about hd0 or hd1 gets baked into the bootloader code. It's an
absolute reference to a physical drive at the moment in time the
command is made.
Is that true? If I have a system with two disks, where device.map
labels one as hd0 and the other
On 8/6/2015 4:55 PM, Leon Fauster wrote:
Am 06.08.2015 um 22:39 schrieb Leon Fauster :
Am 06.08.2015 um 22:21 schrieb Chris Murphy :
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan. If that
works, I can connect the old drive,
On 8/6/2015 4:39 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
On 8/6/2015 4:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan. If that
works, I can connect the old drive
Am 06.08.2015 um 22:39 schrieb Leon Fauster :
> Am 06.08.2015 um 22:21 schrieb Chris Murphy :
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>
>>> Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan. If that
>>> works, I can connect the old drive, copy over all the data, and th
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Leon Fauster wrote:
> Am 06.08.2015 um 22:21 schrieb Chris Murphy :
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>
>>> Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan. If that
>>> works, I can connect the old drive, copy over all the data,
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Definitely a strange problem. I'm hoping that doing a new install onto
> these drives rather than trying to inherit the install used on the smaller
> drives will work better.
The CentOS installer, and parted, predate AF drives, so the
partit
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 8/6/2015 4:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>
>>> Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan. If that
>>> works, I can connect the old drive, copy over all the data, an
Am 06.08.2015 um 22:21 schrieb Chris Murphy :
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>
>> Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan. If that
>> works, I can connect the old drive, copy over all the data, and then try to
>> figure out what I need to do to get all
On 8/6/2015 4:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan. If that
works, I can connect the old drive, copy over all the data, and then try to
figure out what I need to do to get all the programs r
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan. If that
> works, I can connect the old drive, copy over all the data, and then try to
> figure out what I need to do to get all the programs running again.
Sounds like a pain. I w
On 8/6/2015 3:56 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 08/05/2015 08:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added
Highpoint raid card which is used only for the two extra IDE ports.
Why "extra"? Are there drives connected to this system other than the
two
On 08/05/2015 08:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added
Highpoint raid card which is used only for the two extra IDE ports.
Why "extra"? Are there drives connected to this system other than the
two you're discussing for the software RAID set
Rats. That wrapped ugly. Here's that section in the log using fpaste.
http://fpaste.org/252028/88181881/
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I never thought I'd say this, but I think it's easier to do this with
GRUB 2. Anyway I did an installation to raid1's in CentOS 6's
installer, which still uses GRUB legacy. I tested removing each of the
two devices and it still boots. These are the commands in its log:
: Running... ['/sbin/grub-
On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 13:11 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > # smartctl -i /dev/hdg | grep -i sector
> > Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
> I don't get a "Sector Size" line.
>
> smartctl version 5.38 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce
> Allen
On the latest Centos 5 =
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> That's because I'm intending to increase the size of that filesystem. The
> raid should work as long as the new partition is at least as big as the old
> one. Once I get this working, I will remove the original drive and add
> another 1TB dr
Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 8/5/2015 3:59 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> Dumb thought: I don't remember how, other than from a grub menu, but I'm
>> pretty sure there's a way to default boot into a grub shell. Once there,
>> you can see, using file completion, the drives, and where your initrd
>> is.
On 8/5/2015 4:40 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 1:59 PM, wrote:
Dumb thought: I don't remember how, other than from a grub menu, but I'm
pretty sure there's a way to default boot into a grub shell. Once there,
you can see, using file completion, the drives, and where your initr
On 8/5/2015 3:59 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Dumb thought: I don't remember how, other than from a grub menu, but I'm
pretty sure there's a way to default boot into a grub shell. Once there,
you can see, using file completion, the drives, and where your initrd is.
Good thought. I went into the
On 8/5/2015 4:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
- Ahh OK now I see why I was confused. The originally posted partition
map uses cylinders as units, not LBA. I missed that. Cylinder 1 is the
same as LBA 63. And that is sufficiently large for a GRUB legacy stage
2.
- OK this is screwy. Partitions 1 and 3
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 1:59 PM, wrote:
> Dumb thought: I don't remember how, other than from a grub menu, but I'm
> pretty sure there's a way to default boot into a grub shell. Once there,
> you can see, using file completion, the drives, and where your initrd is.
It's definitely not an initrd p
Dumb thought: I don't remember how, other than from a grub menu, but I'm
pretty sure there's a way to default boot into a grub shell. Once there,
you can see, using file completion, the drives, and where your initrd is.
mark
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- Ahh OK now I see why I was confused. The originally posted partition
map uses cylinders as units, not LBA. I missed that. Cylinder 1 is the
same as LBA 63. And that is sufficiently large for a GRUB legacy stage
2.
- OK this is screwy. Partitions 1 and 3 on both drives have the same
number of sec
On 8/5/2015 1:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
Please, download this.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/
Run it:
http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/
Post a URL to the resulting file somewhere. I suggest having the
entire computer assembled as it should be in normal use, rather than
si
Please, download this.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/
Run it:
http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/
Post a URL to the resulting file somewhere. I suggest having the
entire computer assembled as it should be in normal use, rather than
simulating device failure by removing a devic
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 8/5/2015 1:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Bowie Bailey
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> How would I go about pointing it at the partition?
>>>
>>> What I am currently doing is this:
>>> device (hd0) /dev/hdg
>>> root (h
On 8/5/2015 1:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
How would I go about pointing it at the partition?
What I am currently doing is this:
device (hd0) /dev/hdg
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
setup (hd1,0)
It's hd1 if your device map is correct and hdg is
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>
> I tried 'smartctl -a' and 'hdparm -I', but I don't see anything about
> Advanced Format. What am I looking for?
# smartctl -i /dev/hdg | grep -i sector
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
That's what I get, but it's an SSD so it
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>
> On 8/5/2015 12:34 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>>
>>> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB.
>>
>> I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte
On 8/5/2015 12:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB.
I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte
physical sectors,
On 8/5/2015 12:34 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB.
I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte
physical sectors, but it's worth confirming you don't have such a
drive
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB.
>
> I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte
> physical sectors, but it's worth confirming you don't
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB.
I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte
physical sectors, but it's worth confirming you don't have such a
drive because the current partition scheme you've
On 8/5/2015 11:52 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Bowie Bailey wrote:
I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able
to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive
to boot.
This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is
Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 8/5/2015 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able
>>> to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive
>>> to boot.
>>>
>>> This is an old system with only IDE p
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able
>> to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive
>> to boot.
>>
>> This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added Highpoint
>> raid card wh
On 8/5/2015 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Bowie Bailey wrote:
I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able
to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive
to boot.
This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added Highpoint
raid c
Bowie Bailey wrote:
> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able
> to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive
> to boot.
>
> This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added Highpoint
> raid card which is used only for the two ext
I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able
to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive
to boot.
This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added Highpoint
raid card which is used only for the two extra IDE ports. I have
upgra
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