Bug 61858 - Rescue disk doesn't work for RAID1 partitions
Summary: Rescue disk doesn't work for RAID1 partitions
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rescue-disk
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matt Wilson
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-03-25 11:11 UTC by Jeremy Sanders
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-10-16 16:39:11 UTC
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Description Jeremy Sanders 2002-03-25 11:11:52 UTC 
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Description of problem:
If the root disk is on raid1, then the rescue disk can't detect the raid
partitions, so fails to mount the root partition.

This means it is very hard to fix grub by hand if the primary disk fails in a
raid 1 set.

If it fails, you have to go into the install program, get to the shell, make the
device for the partition, mount the partition as ext2, and chroot to this disk.


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a redhat install using raid1 for /
2. Try and run rescue mode on it
3.
	

Additional info:
Comment 1 Matt Wilson 2003-10-16 16:39:11 UTC 
this is fixed in newer releses.
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