On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:32:21AM +0100, Will Partain wrote: > In a previous message, I asked "But now what?", and set out some > specific worries. I have now changed the disk -- no, it didn't go > particular well :-) -- and this message is to fill in what I've > learned. *Thank you* to Bill Rugolsky for chipping in with some > ideas; had I understood them correctly, I might've done better :-( For the archive: I recently (last week) had an incident with FC3 where a kernel upgrade rendered the machine unbootable. The problem aparrently is a bug in grub where it is too stupid to figure out what BIOS drives correspond to /dev/md0 and it will ignore attempts to use /dev/sda instead; so instead of leaving the configuration alone, it merely makes the system completely unusable. Solution: http://xdroop.dhs.org/space/Linux/Grub+won%27t+install+to+raid-1 This bug has aparrently been with us since 7.3 (snarky observation deleted). -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | Public Key: dave@xxxxxxxxxx | http://www.xdroop.com/dave/gpg.html $ gpg --recv-keys --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net 4C032504 Mystery attachment? http://xdroop.dhs.org/space/GPG
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