Boot Problem after Playing with Powervault

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 13:54 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> Hmmmm. I believe responding to one's own emails is a sign of severe social
> deprivation. Go home. Kiss your wife!

Not married.  Never have been (not for a lack of trying).

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

Typos.  And old age!  :-)

> 
> 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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> karl
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