Boot Problem after Playing with Powervault

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

Hmmmm. I believe responding to one's own emails is a sign of severe social
deprivation. Go home. Kiss your wife!

It's also a sign of typos... Take your pick.

KLP

On Fri, September 22, 2006 1:31 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 12:19 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 10:47 -0700, Bret Stern wrote:
>> > So..
>> >
>> > Last night I added a recently purchased Dell Powervault 210s to my
>> > Dell 2450 running Fedora 5.
>> >
>> > As I browsed the uninitialized drives on the PowerVault, I
>> > accidentally/on purpose initialized a disk with a linux boot partition.
>> > It's just my tinkering habit.
>> >
>> > Now my system boots to grub> (that's it). Certainly I hosed
>> > my Grub boot.
>> >
>> > Where i'm at..
>> >
>> > I found that there were two bootable partitions on the machine.
>> > One on sda1, and one on sdb1. I toggled the boot flag on sdb1 (off)
>> > because I only run Linux and sda1 is the logical boot.
>> > (Is the above correct thinking). I can always restore the flag.
>> >
>> >
>> > I have booted my machine using the Fedora cd and typee "linux rescue".
>> >
>> > This found my install and I have chosen to "chroot /mnt/sysimage".
>> >
>> > I can see all my data.
>> >
>> > When I tried "grub-install /dev/sda", I get the following.
>> >  "/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly"
>> >
>> >
>> > What's my next step (maybe I should get into landscaping)  ?
>>
>> Well, gee. My first guess is that you're using a separate /boot
>> partition and it's not mounted, so grub-install can't even find the
>> stage 1 boot code.  After the "chmod /mnt/sysimage", try doing a
>
> Grr!  "chroot /mnt/sysimage".  Fingers not working well today!
>
>>
>> 	# mount -a
>>
>> That will force all of the other mounts that are normally done in your
>> operating environment, including mounting /boot if it _is_ a separate
>> partition.
>>
>> Once that's done, verify that your /boot/grub/stage1 file is 512 bytes
>> in length.  If it is, then try your "grub-install /dev/sda" again and
>> see if it goes OK.  If it does, then enter "exit" twice (first to get
>> out of the chroot environment, second to exit the rescue boot), pop out
>> the CD and see if she'll boot up.
>>
>> As for landscaping, I hate raking leaves and mowing lawns (did enough
>> of that when I was a teen 40 years ago).  I have a gardener.  :-)
>>
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