Grrr. FC[5|6] won't boot after install on Sun Fire x4200
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Sat Oct 21 15:01:08 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 09:23 -0400, David Nedrow wrote:
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> This has me completely flummoxed.
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> I have a Sun Fire x4200 with four drives internal drives on an (LSI)
> SAS1064 RAID controller. Drives 0&1 have been mirrored, as have 2&3.
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> The installation of FC5 (and FC6 tests) goes without a problem.
> HOWEVER, after the reboot the system stop booting at the point where
> grub should start displaying.
>
> I've tried a number of variations, eg. grub on boot volume rather
> than MBR, etc.
>
> Interestingly enough, if I don't mirror the drives, FC boots without
> a problem after the installation. If I then use the RAID controller
> to mirror the boot drive, I'm back to the "bad" behavior where grub
> never appears.
>
> I hope someone out there may have run into this and solved it.
Didja do a clean install or an upgrade? Ric
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