<div dir="ltr">Hi William <br><br> You're right ... I do have 2 HDs and my root is not what I thought it is! Here is what is happening with this system: <br>It has a SIL SATA RAID0/1 card installed with 2x 160GB SATA HDs connected to it. The card is configured to mirror between the HDs (RAID1). But as I saw now Linux actually sees both HDs twice as dmesg shows: <br>
SCSI subsystem initialized<br>libata version 3.00 loaded.<br>sata_sil 0000:06:00.0: version 2.3<br>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 66<br>scsi0 : sata_sil<br>scsi1 : sata_sil<br>ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xe0004800 tf 0xe0004880 irq 66<br>
ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 mmio m512@0xe0004800 tf 0xe00048c0 irq 66<br><br>ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)<br>ata1.00: ATA-7: WDC WD1600AAJS-00PSA0, 05.06H05, max UDMA/133<br>ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)<br>
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100<br><br>ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)<br>ata2.00: ATA-7: WDC WD1600AAJS-00PSA0, 05.06H05, max UDMA/133<br>ata2.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)<br>
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100<br> Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD1600AAJS-0 Rev: 05.0<br> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05<br>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)<br>
sda: Write Protect is off<br>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00<br>SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back<br>SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)<br>sda: Write Protect is off<br>sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00<br>
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back<br> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4<br>sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda<br> Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD1600AAJS-0 Rev: 05.0<br> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05<br>
SCSI device sdb: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)<br>sdb: Write Protect is off<br>sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00<br>SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back<br>SCSI device sdb: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)<br>
sdb: Write Protect is off<br>sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00<br>SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back<br> sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4<br>sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb<br><br><br> /etc/fstab looks for root on /dev/sdb1, while grub looks (and finds) it's configuration (hd0,0) which corresponds to sda1. The thing that strikes me is that the mirror works for grub (as it only sees 1 HD), but doesn't work for Linux. This defeats the purpose of having a RAID1 to begin with :-( Unlike your scenario this system was installed from scratch (CentOS is the only install) and it was done after the mirror was setup in SIL card bios. BTW: the SIL card boot messages claims that the mirror set is valid and active. I will hace to check into this. <br>
<br><br><br>--<br>TIA <br>Paolo <br> <br><br><br></div>