no its the prompt centos goes to when it cannot find anything to boot to. thanks Quoting Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com>: > On 15/02/06, Nathan <lists at netdigix.com> wrote: > > Hi we installed centos on a Intel server board with LSI rad (no raid > configured > > for the lsi). in Centos it sees both drives so we software raid them and > the > > installation goes well and finishes properly. The problem is when the > server > > reboots it can no longer see the hard drives and no just boots to a low > level > > diagnostic shell. Any ideas? > > Is the diagnostic shell single user mode? That would lead me to think > the kernel's bootstrapping to some extent at least and seeing the > disks otherwise where that shell coming from? Unless it's the grub > shell? > > What does ... > > # fdisk -l > > ... list if it runs? Can you boot into rescue mode from an install CD, > does it find the installed OS and allow you to chroot into it? If not > does fdisk see the disks at this level? > > If it's not getting further than greb then it's likely there's no > support for the disk controller in the initrd installed in boot but > there is in the one used off the CD. > > Will. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thanks - Nathan - http://www.netdigix.com