[Resolved] RAID/BIOS Booting Issue

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[Resolved] RAID/BIOS Booting Issue

Post by l2g » 2016/09/21 14:45:40

Guys,

I flashed my BIOS to the latest and greatest without considering how beautiful my system worked beforehand. Anyway, now i can't boot back into CentOS 7 now.

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[    1.732340] localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    1.733917] localhost kernel:  sdd: sdd1
[    1.733984] localhost kernel:  sdc: sdc1 sdc2
[    1.735398] localhost kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
[    1.735551] localhost kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[    1.735727] localhost kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[    1.735730] localhost kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    1.735826] localhost kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    1.738536] localhost kernel: e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: registered PHC clock
[    1.738538] localhost kernel: e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: (PCI Express:2.5GT/s:Width x1) 70:8b:cd:bb:2f:91
[    1.738539] localhost kernel: e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
[    1.738573] localhost kernel: e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 eth0: MAC: 12, PHY: 12, PBA No: FFFFFF-0FF
[    1.738618] localhost kernel: [drm] This hardware requires preliminary hardware support.
                                 See CONFIG_DRM_I915_PRELIMINARY_HW_SUPPORT, and/or modparam preliminary_hw_support
[    1.747392] localhost kernel: sr 5:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[    1.747394] localhost kernel: cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[    1.747573] localhost kernel: sr 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[    1.750870] localhost kernel:  sda: sda1
[    1.752626] localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[    1.760246] localhost kernel:  sdb: sdb1
[    1.761096] localhost kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[    1.780602] localhost kernel: md: bind<sdc2>
[    1.781751] localhost kernel: md: bind<sdd1>
[    1.784064] localhost kernel: md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
[    1.785108] localhost kernel: md/raid1:md127: active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
[    1.785206] localhost kernel: created bitmap (4 pages) for device md127
[    1.785429] localhost kernel: md127: bitmap initialized from disk: read 1 pages, set 0 of 7443 bits
[    1.786407] localhost kernel: md127: detected capacity change from 0 to 499448283136
[    1.786786] localhost kernel:  md127: unknown partition table


... also a lot of this (seems probably unrelated to my issue) ...
[    0.925328] localhost kernel: ACPI Error: No object attached to node ffff88101cd6bbe0 (20130517/exresnte-127)
[    0.925331] localhost kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.XHC_.RHUB.HS01._PLD] (Node ffff88101cd6bc30), AE_AML_NO_OPERAND (20130517/psparse-536)
[    0.925717] localhost kernel: ACPI Error: No object attached to node ffff88101cd6bbe0 (20130517/exresnte-127)
[    0.925718] localhost kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.XHC_.RHUB.HS02._PLD] (Node ffff88101cd6bc80), AE_AML_NO_OPERAND (20130517/psparse-536)
[    0.926073] localhost kernel: ACPI Error: No object attached to node ffff88101cd6bbe0 (20130517/exresnte-127)
[    0.926074] localhost kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.XHC_.RHUB.HS03._PLD] (Node ffff88101cd6bcd0), AE_AML_NO_OPERAND (20130517/psparse-536)
[    0.926428] localhost kernel: ACPI Error: No object attached to node ffff88101cd6bbe0 (20130517/exresnte-127)
[    0.926430] localhost kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.XHC_.RHUB.HS04._PLD] (Node ffff88101cd6bd20), AE_AML_NO_OPERAND (20130517/psparse-536)
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I tried to flash back to the original BIOS version i had (which worked great) without success. Yes I truly regret my decision, but what's done is done now. :(

Now if I boot off of the CentOS 7.2 DVD and choose Troubleshooting --> and then Rescue a CentOS system, I can see everything perfectly in /mnt/sysimage which made me feel like I'm not at a total loss (yet). I can see all my RAIDs, access all of my VolumeGroups and everything!

So... my question is:
How can I fix my system so it's bootable again from the /mnt/sysimage, perhaps I'm not at a total loss yet?

Edit:

So as it turns out i just had to stall the boot sequence a bit since the new BIOS seems to take longer to initialize the drives. Thanks to this post.

adding: rd.auto and rootdelay=5 to the kernel parameters and regenerating my grub2 configuration seemed to solve the problem.

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