Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 450722
Raid1 boot corruption on removal of mirror component
Last modified: 2009-07-14 12:10:14 EDT
Description of problem: System fails to boot when one half of mirrored pair is absent. /boot fails fsck Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 9 (OK on Fedora 8) How reproducible: Very. Every attempt to boot Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora with two disc which mirror each other (Raid1) 2. Reboot with one disc removed 3. Observe failure to boot Actual results: Fails to boot with fsck error of /dev/md0 Expected results: Boot but with removed disc absent from mirrors Additional info:
Created attachment 308843 [details] Text file expanding on problem
This is partially a duplicate of 160563, but I think the symptoms displayed are related to a change in grub to handle ext3 with larger inodes. So I am not 100% if this should be closed as a duplicate of 160563.
I should add that both discs had had grub run on them under Fodera 8 as follows: grub> device (hd0) /dev/sd[ab] grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) The fsck failed someway into the boot, i.e. after running udev
Adjusted component to mkinitrd. Is this a static init script issue not being able to map the degraded mirror propperly ?
Just ran into this exact same problem, we are currently stuck unable to do a system migration because of this problem. Is there a workaround to bring the grub configuration into a useable state?
I have this problem too. Is there any solution? Or i should change distro? Distro without goodworking RAID1 is useless for me
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