FireDemonSiC
March 7th, 2011, 07:06 AM
Yet another problem.
Last night I upgraded my 10.04 install to 10.10 and guess what? It broke the boot loader. Grub falls to a recovery shell at boot so at the moment I have NO OPERATING SYSTEM.
No problem I can fix that with the LiveCD.
So I popped in the live CD, installed kpartx so I can properly read my RAID array and verify this in gparted. 4 Linux partitions and two Windows so we should be good to go.
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Unknown partition table signature
Unknown partition table signature
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For
the first word, TAB lists possible command
completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd0,3)
root (hd0,3)
Error 22: No such partition
grub> root (hd0)
root (hd0)
grub> root (hd1)
root (hd1)
grub> root (hd2)
root (hd2)
grub> root (hd3)
root (hd3)
grub>
As you can see, grub isn't reading the RAID array. It's still recognizing 4 individual drives. How do I correct this?
I must say, for a Linux distro that is intended for beginners this one has given me THE MOST trouble out of all the distros I've tried. This all started with a network connection that sopped working by itself and kept progressing from there. Each time I try to fix a problem, I have to find a fix for the solution. I feel like I'm watching inception.
Last night I upgraded my 10.04 install to 10.10 and guess what? It broke the boot loader. Grub falls to a recovery shell at boot so at the moment I have NO OPERATING SYSTEM.
No problem I can fix that with the LiveCD.
So I popped in the live CD, installed kpartx so I can properly read my RAID array and verify this in gparted. 4 Linux partitions and two Windows so we should be good to go.
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Unknown partition table signature
Unknown partition table signature
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For
the first word, TAB lists possible command
completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd0,3)
root (hd0,3)
Error 22: No such partition
grub> root (hd0)
root (hd0)
grub> root (hd1)
root (hd1)
grub> root (hd2)
root (hd2)
grub> root (hd3)
root (hd3)
grub>
As you can see, grub isn't reading the RAID array. It's still recognizing 4 individual drives. How do I correct this?
I must say, for a Linux distro that is intended for beginners this one has given me THE MOST trouble out of all the distros I've tried. This all started with a network connection that sopped working by itself and kept progressing from there. Each time I try to fix a problem, I have to find a fix for the solution. I feel like I'm watching inception.