On 4/12/06, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 at 7:05pm, Nick Smith wrote > > > the first time i tried to install centos on my fileserver it detected > > my reiserfs drives but then didnt give me a kernel to actually access > > them - strike one > > Err, investigating whether upstream supports reiser would have been a good > first move. > Yeah, never thought i had to, every other distro ive tired has it, and it manages small files better than ext3, but i know now. > > now im trying centos on my mail server, wipe the drives, created a > > mirrored raid array from the setup, (took over 14 hours to format and > > That's *extraordinarily* slow, as in something seems very bad. > the drives are in perfect condition, ran the previous OS without any problems, they are almost new. > > sync) finally finished the install AND IT DIDNT WRITE THE BOOT RECORD! > > when it rebooted i got my grub menu from GENTOO! - strike two, > > I've had occasional problems with grub not getting properly installed. > It's easy to fix. Put in the first CD, and boot with 'linux rescue'. > Once it's mounted your install, 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' and 'grub-install > /dev/sda' and/or just follow those instructions you mentioned. > cool, ill give it a try right now, thanks for the quick reply! > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Linux, because I'd rather own a free OS than steal one that's not worth paying for.