Raid issue (solved)

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Showa
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Raid issue (solved)

Post by Showa » 2014/11/15 15:17:13

I have been using my Centos server for a couple of years now without any serious problem.
Three days I had to restart the server, booting stopped at grub. Searching the internet I did try to resolve this with linux rescue. With no result.
Momentary the os is 5.11 I have got a software raid system with the os in raid 1 on two disks and my data in raid 5 on four disks.
Using parted magic the disks seems to be ok. The strange thing I noticed was dat md0 (with grub) exists on sde and sdf, md1 md2 and md3 (the other devices in raid 1) are empty instead there are dm-1 dm-2 dm-3. The data md126 (raid 5) became dm-0. Looking at the dm-devices all the files seems to be there.

Now my my question: is it possible to repair the raid devices with linux rescue and how? Three days of searching didn't resolve my problem and I need the server for my work.

Thank you in advance,

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Re: Raid issue

Post by gerald_clark » 2014/11/15 16:08:46

Are you booting with the CentOS DVD or another OS?

Showa
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Re: Raid issue

Post by Showa » 2014/11/15 16:14:38

Centos 5.11 dvd no1

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Re: Raid issue

Post by Showa » 2014/11/15 16:58:57

Some additional information. Using the partition editor in Parted Magic only md0 is visible.

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Re: Raid issue

Post by gerald_clark » 2014/11/15 19:07:50


Showa
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Re: Raid issue

Post by Showa » 2014/11/16 17:06:07

Seems to be a grub problem. I manually added a grub.conf file everywhere I could find grub files using root (hd0,0) I now got the grub menu but hd0,0 is not correct. How can I discover what this has to be?

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Re: Raid issue

Post by Showa » 2014/11/16 18:08:28

Problem solved! Removed root (hd0,0) from te grub.conf file and after four days everything seems to work as it should.

Thank you for your answers.

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