[wplug] GRUB won't update MBR

Alexandros Papadopoulos apapadop at cmu.edu
Tue Aug 5 21:08:59 EDT 2003


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On Tuesday 05 August 2003 20:48, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> > I installed a hardware ATA RAID 1 controller in a RH7.2 machine.
> > After much trouble, I've managed to install GRUB on the MBR, but it
> > insists on trying to boot /dev/hda1, while my current disks are
> > /dev/hde and /dev/hdg. I thought that having the correct grub.conf
> > and running grub-install /dev/hde was all it took, but it doesn't
> > seem to be so easy.

Well, I fixed that (was relying on RH's symlinks, but for some reason 
/etc/grub.conf was NOT reflected in /boot/grub/grub.conf - go figure), 
but now I have a real problem that seems to be more deep rooted.

It seems that the Adaptec controller I got is working on a Winmodem 
principal, replying on software to make it work... software that is 
only available for M$ products.

I shouldn't even be seeing /dev/hde and /dev/hdg after "creating the 
array" in the controller's BIOS utility, but I am still seeing two 
separate disks. The quotes are there because obviously the hardware can 
do nothing on its own, and it relies on a M$-Win driver to mirror the 
data. After win-modems and win-printers, we're getting 
win-@&%#%@!!&-controllers...

For the record, the controller is an Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A - two 
channels, RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and hot-spare capabilities. I'll officially 
ask Adaptec support tomorrow from work, and will let you know what 
happens.

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