[CentOS] boot failure after install

Stephen Westrip steve at metafour.com
Wed Jun 29 13:02:30 UTC 2005


Dear P.,

Yes, this has happened EVERY time I have installed CentOS 4.0 (the only 
version I have ever installed). I also boot up into rescue mode and then 
issue just one grub command,

grub-install /dev/i2o/hda (or whatever your device is called)

This fixes the problem permanently.


Stephen Westrip
MetaFour




Peter Farrow wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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