Lamar Owen wrote: > On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 02:46:24 PM m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Booting purposes is the point: /dev/md0 is /boot. And as the slot's >> ATA0, it should come up as sda. You mention getting the bootloader >> sectors over - do you mean, after it's rebuilt and active, to then rerun >> grub-install? > > Either that, or dd the stage1.5 sectors over. See > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB#GRUB_version_1 > > for more information on where the stage1.5 is located on the disk. Well, I dd'd the first meg or so with /dev/zero of both /dev/sdc2 and /dev/sdc3 (what happened to /dev/true and /dev/false?), and readded it, and it's happily rebuilding. > >> Remember, the drive that's failing is /dev/sda. I also don't see why, if >> I replace the original drive in the original slot (I'm doing this on the >> clone, whose drive is just fine, thankyouveddymuch), it isn't recognized >> as /dev/sda. > > I've seen that happen before. It was a tad disconcerting at first, but, > yes, in the case I saw it a reboot made it back to sda. I'll be *very* interested about rebooting. > >> Another question, for you, or Johnny - where's the source code for >> udevadm? The documentation doesn't, and I was just trying to yum install >> the udev-devel so I could look at the source code, and there's no such >> package. > > The udev source RPM should contain this. As CentOS 5 doesn't include > udevadm, I'm assuming this is CentOS 6, which does, so you'd want to get > > http://vault.centos.org/6.0/cr/SRPMS/Packages/udev-147-2.35.el6.src.rpm > > which is the latest CentOS source package. (6.2 has a newer one; you > could, if you wanted to, go to ftp.redhat.com and grab the src.rpm there). Thanks a lot - that's much appreciated. mark