[ale] Fedora Booting experts

[Greg Freemyer]

Jim,

My sda1 and sdb1 are NOT in sync.  I'm pretty sure that is the problem.

fyi: both sda1 and sdb1 are only 100 MB or so and both are set to be
of type mdraid.

I don't know how to verify the state / components of md0 offhand.  I
always use hardware raid.

Greg

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Jim Kinney<jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> /boot on raid1 will not cause an issue. The BIOS will connect to what
> it's told (sda, sdb, etc NOT md0). It keeps /boot in sync for a manual
> bootup with a failed sda.
>
> Basically, it sounds like the kernel upgrade failed or there is a
> block on kernel upgrades (it's a yum plugin - found in
> /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/).
>
> try a removal of the kernel rpm and reinstall and check
> /boot/grub/grub.conf to see if it upgraded the file. If not, do it
> manually and follow the pattern there.
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Greg Freemyer<greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just realized my /boot partition is on a raid1 mdraid setup.
>>
>> I've never tried to have my grub setup files on a mdraid setup.  I
>> suspect it is causing me issues.
>>
>> Advice very welcome about how to proceed.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Greg
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Greg Freemyer<greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I normally run suse, but I've got one appliance that is running Fedora
>>> so maybe I'm not troubleshooting this right.
>>>
>>> I upgraded the kernel via rpm a few weeks ago, but now realize I'm
>>> still running the old one.
>>>
>>> I've just rebooted and hit the space bar at the right time to see the
>>> grub boot menu.  It has a single entry for a 2.6.21 kernel.  Nothing
>>> else to choose.
>>>
>>> But if I look at /boot/grub/menu.lst I see three menu choices.  The
>>> first one is the default and it is 2.6.22 which is what I want.  I
>>> guess that file might be corrupt, but it looks okay to me.
>>>
>>> I did a "find / -name menu.lst" but I only have the one file.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on where else to look?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Greg
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Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team
Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer
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