Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 234072
RHEL 5 failes to boot from 3ware SATA RAID aray (3w-9xxx driver) after install
Last modified: 2009-07-21 09:00:44 EDT
Description of problem: After a succesful install of RHEL 5 to a 3ware SATA RAID Array, the system then fails to boot. Grub starts (without graphics) and reports the following: Booting 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5)' root(hd1,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quite Error 15: File not Found Press any key to continue Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernel 2.6.18-8.el5 and kernel 2.6.18-8.1.1.el5 3Ware 9550SX Firmware 9.3.0.7 (tried earlier versions as well) Tyan S2895 Motherboard with Bios 1.04 and 1.03 (1.05 fails to even install RHEL) How reproducible: Fails to boot every time using two different kernels and several different combinations of controller and motherboard firmwares. The install part works with firmwares 9.3.0.7 (3ware) and 1.0.4 (Tyan) and earlier, but again it fails to boot after the install is finished (even before firstboot config) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL5 from CD to a 3Ware SATA RAID 5 array 2. Reboot after succesful install 3. Watch grub load but fail to boot system Actual results: System fails to boot past grub load Expected results: System boots to RHEL5 succesfully Additional info: No clue here...
Sorry, forgot to add grub version: grub-0.97-13.x86_64
Not sure how this happened but the installer setup grub to the wrong harddrive. It should have assigned grub to load off of root(hd0,0) and not root(hd1,0). No clue why it did that on the install, but it was resolved by booting the install CDs into rescue mode and changing the value under /boot/grub/grub.conf. Sorry to waist your time on this.