problems using grub

[Globe Trotter]

Hi, I am at home now so not accessible to the machine in question.

But, I know I have an Adaptec ATA 1200 RAID array. I can get you specs later. I
have two HDD's and the second one is setup with the software RAID using Druid.
(I turned it back on to run your experiment.) 

My machine is a dual processor so I have to use an smp kernel.

Thanks a lot!


--- Robert L Cochran <cochranb at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Hmmm. Can you describe the hardware you have? I'm especially interested 
> in how many drives you have, and of what type (IDE or SCSI). I do not 
> think you have software RAID at all because your df output doesn't show 
> RAID devices and you said you turned RAID off via your BIOS. That sounds 
> a lot like you have a Promise or other brand of RAID controller on your 
> motherboard, and the Promise controllers don't work well with Linux.
> 
> Also, what are you using the 'ntplsmp' kernel for? I'm not familiar with 
> that and wonder if you have an SMP motherboard?
> 
> I won't be able to respond more until tomorrow night at the earliest, 
> but maybe others can pitch in and help you too.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> Globe Trotter wrote:
> 
> > --- Robert L Cochran <cochranb at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > 
> >>If you are doing RAID1, then in your grub.conf file entry:
> >>
> >>kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2097.nptl ro root=/dev/md1
> >>initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2097.nptl.img
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > By the way, I tried this out and nothing happened!! Still the blinking
> lights
> > after grub.....but then I did it by hand and ended up getting a
> > kernel-panic....
> > 
> > df -h gives the following:
> > 
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hde5             2.9G  2.3G  547M  81% /
> > /dev/hde1             2.0G   33M  1.9G   2% /new
> > none                  251M     0  251M   0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/hde6              40G  1.8G   36G   5% /usr/local
> > 
> > 
> > timeout=10
> > splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2088.nptlsmp)
> >         root (hd0,6)
> >         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2088.nptlsmp ro root=/dev/hdg1
> >         initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2088.nptlsmp.img
> > 
> > title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2088.nptlsmp)
> >         root (hd0,6)
> >         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2088.nptl ro root=/dev/hdg1
> >         initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2088.nptl.img
> > 
> > 
> > For whatever it is worth, my software RAID1 is on /dev/hdg1.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
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