[CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 8/5/2015 11:27 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB.  I was able
>>> to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive
>>> to boot.
>>>
>>> This is an old system with only IDE ports.  There is an added Highpoint
>>> raid card which is used only for the two extra IDE ports. I have
>>> upgraded it with a 1TB SATA drive and an IDE-SATA adapter.  I did not
>>> have any problems with the system recognizing the drive or adding it to
>>> the mdraid.  A short SMART test shows no errors.
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> It was originally a pair of 500GB IDE drives in an mdraid mirror
> configuration.  Right now, I have removed one 500GB drive and replaced
> it with a 1TB SATA drive with an IDE-SATA adapter.  Both drives are
> connected to the Highpoint card and apparently working fine other than
> the boot-up problem.
>
> I was considering adding an SATA card to the system, but I didn't want
> to deal with finding drivers for a card old enough to work with this
> system (32-bit PCI).
>
> I have not done any updates to the system in quite some time.

1. Have you, during POST, gone into the Hpt controller firmware and made
sure that it sees and presents the new disk properly?
2. If that's good, then I'm wondering if the initrd needs a SATA driver,
which it may not have, since the old version of your system was all IDE.

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