Arun Khan wrote: <snip>
Following the instructions on CentOS Wiki http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 I installed a min. server in Linux KVM setup (script shown below)
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The system boots fine when both disks are available. When I remove either of the disks (delete the -drive file= line), the system boots to a point wherein the GRUB menu is displayed and the progress bar displays for a while till the white bar reaches about halfway point and then it:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
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<fdisk -l> root@centos62-raid1 ~ > # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000e8353
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 523 4194304 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 523 1045 4194304 83 Linux /dev/sda3 1045 1176 1048576 82 Linux swap / Solaris
<snip> Ok, I see that it's hardware 512b blocks, so you're not running into issues with 4k hardware blocks. I trust you installed grub on /dev/md0, which I assume is /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1?
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