From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I installed Red Hat on a 2 disk software raid, using the ext3 file system. This raid is the primary boot device from the sytem. The disk was designed as one large raid, so that any OS updates gets placed on both disks. A kernel upgrade was done, and /boot did not update at boot time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install red hat 7.3 on a 2 disk software raid. The raid will be ext3 and configured as all available space on the disk. 2. Run an update utility to update the kernel to 2.4.18-5 3. Check /boot and notice that 18-3 is gone and 18-5 is in it's place. 4. Reboot and you will see that the system still boots 18-3 Actual Results: 2.4.18-3 booted. Expected Results: 2.4.18-5 should have booted. Additional info: I configued the entire disk as a raid so that the OS would be updated automatically. The elegant way would have been to put /boot in an unmirrored partition by itself. This time I wanted /boot mirrored also so that if the primary disk failed I could easily boot from the secondary drive, and not end up with a kernel thats out of date. If you mount /dev/hda1 and check the /boot on the physical disk, you will see that it is different from the /boot on the raid device. It appears that the /boot information from md0 is not being written back to /dev/hda1 Workaround is to copy the /boot directory from /dev/md0 to /dev/hda1, but I think that /dev/md0 should have written /boot back to /dev/hda1
I did more checking. The mirrored disk (/dev/hdc1) is getting an updated physical /boot and this is not happening on /dev/hda1 So: /dev/md0/boot - updated /dev/hda1/boot - NOT updated /dev/hdc1/boot - updated
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