[Grml] grml 1.0 grml2hd issues
Lars Schimmer
l.schimmer at cgv.tugraz.at
Sun Jun 24 12:25:21 CEST 2007
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Michael Gebetsroither wrote:
> Quoting Lars Schimmer <l.schimmer at cgv.tugraz.at>:
>
>> I let it run, added root pwd, username,userpwd, deleted the apache
>> server, added hal, choosed grub in mbr and waited til it was done and
>> rebooted.
>> After reboot, it couldn´t mount /root, because "device not found or
>> busy".
>> I tried it with UUID and with /dev/sda3 in grub....
>
> We've debugged the problem together and found the evil root cause!
>
> It was dmraid!
> Dmraid starts an intel fakeraid because there was a valied intel
> software raid metadata chunk on the disk. We suppose this comes from
> some stresstesting with Windows from the vendor.
>
> Once found this could easily be corrected.
>
> dmraid -r /dev/sda -E
> dmraid -r /dev/sdb -E
>
> The command aborts and prints out a backtrace but netherless it removed
> the metadata chunk from the disk successfully.
>
> But after this metadata removeal grub won't boot the system anymore,
> just reinstall it.
>
> mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3
> grub-install --root-directory /mnt/sda3 /dev/sda
>
> And everything worked as expected.
A BIG thanks to the helping people :-)
> cu,
> Michael
MfG,
Lars Schimmer
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