Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
CentOS Community,
I have a dedicated server with 4 hard drives in a RAID 10 software configuration running LVM. My OS is CentOS 6.2. Earlier today, I rebooted my system and my system did not come back online. I opened a ticket with my datacenter who informed me that one of my hard drives is no longer recognized by the bios and has failed. I was told that an OS reinstall was needed.
I don't understand why a reinstall would be necessary when the drives are in RAID 10. Apparently when the datacenter did the initial OS install, they ONLY installed the MBR on one drive instead of all 4 leaving the other 3 drives unbootable.
<snip> Whatever the outcome, I would strongly recommend escalating this to a manager, since the staff installed it incorrectly - perhaps they don't understand what a RAID is? But they need to make this right - you're paying for it.
Besides, it's not Windows....
mark