From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9gt2-0005H7-Gj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:56:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A85DF1C035; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:54:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ADA31C035 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:54:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E4331BC0D9 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:54:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.538 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.538 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.061, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fQpLgggWPdxG for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:54:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E431BC0D7 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:54:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9gql-0005Ha-8q for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:53:59 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:53:59 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:53:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20110411214915.3f88106a@digimed.co.uk> <20110412101132.0ee9c8e8@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.17) Gecko/20110305 Gentoo/2.0.12 SeaMonkey/2.0.12) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fd366b3cbbcc9e503ed75937eda47111 James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > I've found GRUB's handling of symlinks to be variable at best. Try > > searching for the real file. All the files are in /boot/grub: (chroot) slam grub # ls default grub.conf minix_stage1_5 stage2.old device.map grub.conf.bak reiserfs_stage1_5 stage2_eltorito e2fs_stage1_5 iso9660_stage1_5 splash.xpm.gz ufs2_stage1_5 fat_stage1_5 jfs_stage1_5 stage1 vstafs_stage1_5 ffs_stage1_5 menu.lst stage2 xfs_stage1_5 > Everything I try within grub indicated the filesystem is unknown. This stumps me.... http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250829 Bug above looks like this grub support of ext4 was flushed out and fixed some time ago? > Maybe unmount the boot partition, reformat it to ext2 copy over the kernrel > (run what mdadm commands again) remount and see if it works? This is still my best idea, if nobody has any other ideas? James