[CentOS] CentOS 5 grub boot problem

[Chris Murphy]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 06.08.2015 um 22:21 schrieb Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com>:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> on which OS (eg. c5, c6) was the partition created?

For the OP, I think it was CentOS 5, but he only said it's running CentOS 5 now.

For my test, it was CentOS 6, but that uses the same version of GRUB
legacy so the bootloader installation method for raid1 disks should be
the same.

-- 
Chris Murphy