Dear All,
I have recently had a bad experiences with Centos 4.0 and 4.1 when installing onto mirrored IDE drives using software mirror.
The install goes through ok, but when the system comes to reboot, it seems the boot loader fails. I've seen fail on the first reboot or after a random number of reboots, across different hardware as wide and varied as you can get, the common factor is software raid, (mirrored drives).
It either fails just displaying "GRUB" or fails with a flashing cursor at the bootup time.
Booting a rescue cd, doing a chroot /mnt/sysimage and then the following grub commands fixes the issue permanently, so that it never fails again,
grub
grub-> root (hd0,0) grub-> setup (hd0) grup-> root (hd1,0) grub-> setup (hd1) grub-> quit
it seems to me the Anaconda installer doesn't do something quite right which leads to this random style failure. Its only random as to when it will do it, unless you do this, it will do it at some point.....
I've been doing Redhat for many years and never seen this problem before......anybody else seen this
P.