Re: Installing grub2 with /boot on software raid

[Wesley PA4WDH]

Hi All,

To be able to troubleshoot this issue i decided to remove the new array's one 
by one and reboot after a delete to see if it makes a difference.
That didn't take long, because right after removing md9 only booting already 
started working again. As soon as i create it again booting fails in the same 
way as described ealier.

Just for reference:
To delete an array i use:
mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sda9
mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb9
I don't actually delete the partitions, just doing this makes the system boot.
To create it again:
mdadm --create -l 1 -n 2 --metadata=0.9 /dev/md9 /dev/sda9 /dev/sdb9
(and wait for 2 hours for the sync proces :-) )


Any suggestions on how to proceed ?

Best regards,
Wesley

>________________________________
> From: Wesley PA4WDH <address@hidden>
>To: help-grub <address@hidden> 
>Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 3:08 PM
>Subject: Re: Installing grub2 with /boot on software raid
> 
>
>Hi All,
>
>I just hit a new problem with my setup.
>
>Since boot and root where working fine i started to use the rest of the disk. 
>I created some extra partitions and created raid's from them:
>
>These are the partitions of sda, sdb is the same:
>Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
>Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
>I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
>Disk identifier: 0xf96d7342
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/sda1            2048      264191      131072   fd  Linux raid autodetect
>/dev/sda2          264192     8652799     4194304   fd  Linux raid autodetect
>/dev/sda3         8652800  1953525167   972436184    5  Extended
>/dev/sda5         8654848   428085247   209715200   fd  Linux raid autodetect
>/dev/sda6       428087296   847517695   209715200   fd  Linux raid autodetect
>/dev/sda7       847519744  1266950143   209715200   fd  Linux raid autodetect
>/dev/sda8      1266952192  1686382591   209715200   fd  Linux raid autodetect
>/dev/sda9      1686384640  1953525167   133570264   fd  Linux raid autodetect
>
>Sda3 upto sda9 are new.
>
>These are the md devices from /proc/mdstat:
>md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
>      4194240 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
>md5 : active raid1 sdb5[1] sda5[0]
>      209715136 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
>md6 : active raid1 sdb6[1] sda6[0]
>      209715136 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
>md7 : active raid1 sdb7[1] sda7[0]
>      209715136 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
>md8 : active raid1 sdb8[1] sda8[0]
>      209715136 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
>md9 : active raid1 sdb9[1] sda9[0]
>      133570176 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
>md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
>      131008 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>
>All md5 upto md9 are all formatted with ext3, that not how i want to use them, 
>but i just wanted to make sure there's a valid filesystem on them.
>
>When i reboot i end up in a rescue shell, and this a log such a rescue session:
>
>GRUB loading.
>Welcome to GRUB!
>
>error: file `/grub2/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found.
>Entering rescue mode...
>grub rescue> ls
>(md/md8) (md/md7) (md/md6) (md/md5) (md/md1) (md/md0) (md/md9) (hd0) (hd0,msdos
>9) (hd0,msdos8) (hd0,msdos7) (hd0,msdos6) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos2) (hd0,msdos1
>) (hd1) (hd1,msdos9) (hd1,msdos8) (hd1,msdos7) (hd1,msdos6) (hd1,msdos5) (hd1,m
>sdos2) (hd1,msdos1) (hd2) (hd3) (hd4) (hd5) (hd6) (hd7) (hd8) (hd9) (hd10) (hd1
>1) (hd12) (hd13) (hd14) (hd15)
>grub rescue> ls (md/md0)/
>error: unknown filesystem.
>grub rescue> ls (hd0,1)/
>./ ../ lost+found/ grub2/ boot vmlinuz-3.8.13 .keep vmlinuz-3.8.13-64bit
>grub rescue> set prefix=(hd0,1)/grub2
>grub rescue> insmod normal
>grub rescue> normal
>grub> ls (md/md0)/
>error: unknown filesystem.
>grub> insmod mdraid09
>grub> ls (md/md0)/
>error: unknown filesystem.
>grub> ls (hd0,1)/
>lost+found/ grub2/ boot vmlinuz-3.8.13 vmlinuz-3.8.13-64bit
>grub> linux (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-3.8.13-64bit $kernel_parameters
>grub> boot
>
>
>$kernel_parameters is a variable i set with all required kernel parameters: 
>root=/dev/md1 console=ttyS0,19200n8 clocksource=hpet
>
>Somehow it's unable to read the md devices, but it is able to read from hd0,1 
>(the real partition for /boot). I did try to re-install grub2 but that didn't 
>change the behavior.
>
>Any suggestions on how to fix this ?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Wesley
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