On 13 Jul 12:52, Mark Rogers wrote:
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
Try root=/dev/md1 rather than /dev/md/1 - devfs has been dead for long time now, and initramfs tends to use udev these days. So unless you're specifically enabling devfs, that's not going to be the device node (I hope!)
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?
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