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. > <snip> > Trying to get your configuration clear in my mind - the drives are 1TB > IDE, and they're attached to the m/b, or to the Hpt RAID card? > > Also, did you update the system? New kernel? If so, is the RAID card > recognized (we've got a Hpt RocketRaid card in a CentOS 6 system, and > we're *finally* replacing it with an LSI (once it comes in), because Hpt > does not care about old cards, and I had to find the source code, and then > hack it to compile it for the new kernel, and have had to recompile for > the new kernels we've installed.... > To follow myself up, I forgot one thing I'd intended to ask: is it possible that you needed to rebuild the initrd? mark