[CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

[Bowie Bailey]

On 8/6/2015 4:21 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote:
>
>> Doing a new install on the two 1TB drives is my current plan.  If that
>> works, I can connect the old drive, copy over all the data, and then try to
>> figure out what I need to do to get all the programs running again.
> Sounds like a pain. I would just adapt the CentOS 6 program.log
> commands for your case. That's a 2 minute test. And it ought to work.

I'm not familiar with that.  How would I go about adapting the CentOS 6 
program.log commands?

> Clearly the computer finds the drive, reads the MBR and executes stage
> 1. The missing part is it's not loading or not executing stage 2 for
> some reason. I'm just not convinced the bootloader is installed
> correctly is the source of the problem with the 2nd drive. It's not
> like the BIOS or HBA card firmware is going to faceplace right in
> between stage 1 and stage 2 bootloaders executing. If there were a
> problem there, the drive simply doesn't show up and no part of the
> bootloader gets loaded.

Definitely a strange problem.  I'm hoping that doing a new install onto 
these drives rather than trying to inherit the install used on the 
smaller drives will work better.

-- 
Bowie