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Hi,<BR>
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I have done this a thousand times, (...well, less)<BR>
and it always worked like a charm.<BR>
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Most machines I use, I build them with either 4 Disks and raid 10 (and 1 for the mirror booting) or 6 disk and raid 5 (and 1 for the mirror booting)<BR>
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This time I am dealing with a estrange problem. (Ubuntu 10.10 server)<BR>
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I do the formats, (three primary partitions for linux raid)<BR>
I configure the arrays:<BR>
- raid 1 for 2 partitions with booting flag, mounted on /boot)<BR>
- raid 5 for the rest,<BR>
<BR>
The install completes, at the end grub installs in the two devices,<BR>
on reboot, it drops to busybox, <BR>
waiting for the raid to come alive doesn't work,<BR>
and the root=uuid that grub wants to boot from is not there,<BR>
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in the working installs, grub is automagically configured to boot from md0 (the first array device)<BR>
in this one grub is looking for a physical hard drive,<BR>
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The other interesting problem is that array itself seems faulty,<BR>
if I boot from a live disk, the array will tell me that there are not enough disks to start it.<BR>
but at the same time, the system will recognize all the disks,<BR>
All the disks were checked and they seem fine.<BR>
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Is this something that happened before to someone and triggers a bitter memory?<BR>
if so, can give me a pointer to where to look at, and what to look for?<BR>
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Thanks a bunch, (to the bunch)<BR>
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Andres<BR>
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