On 13/07/11 11:23, Mark Rogers wrote:
However it won't boot. Grub starts and gives me my menu, but gets no further.
I think this is "just" a grub issue.
After reading some forum advice I decided that booting from a single 1TB partition (actually just a bit less) may be an issue, although I think that was a red herring. But anyway, I'm now re-installed with /dev/sda1 = 500MB md /dev/sda2 = (almost) 1TB md /dev/sda3 = 1GB swap
/dev/md/0 = 500MB ext3 /boot /dev/md/1 = 1TB ext4 /
The symptoms are the same: no boot past the grub menu. If I try recovery mode it dies after "loading initial ramdisk".
If I enter the grub commandline ("c" from boot menu) and try: set root=(md/0) linux /vmlinuz<tab> root=/dev/md/1 initrd /initrd<tab> boot .. the server will now start booting but I get mounting /dev/md/1 on /root faile: Device or resource busy ... Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init No init found. Try passing init= bootarg
.. and I get dropped at an (initramfs) prompt.
Out of my depth here - suggestions?