Brand new 2950 Won't Boot

[Baird, Josh]

Typically, /boot should be on a separate partition.  Is it?  It also
cannot be within an LVM VG.

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[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Sturgis, Grant
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:15 PM
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: Re: Brand new 2950 Won't Boot

Sturgis, Grant wrote:
> Tino Schwarze wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:18:03AM -0600, Sturgis, Grant wrote:
>  >
>  >  > Just got a shiny new 2950 and installed RHEL 2.6.  Rebooted from
the
>  >  > installation program and the system will not boot.  I choose F11

> to get
>  >  > to the boot menu, choose "Hard drive C:" and nothing happens.
If I do
>  >  > not choose F11 (just let the system boot as normal), it gets to
the
>  >  > "Press <Ctrl-E> for Remote Access Setup within 5 sec....", then
just
>  > hangs.
>  >  >
>  >  > Anyone know what is happening here and how to fix it?
>  >
>  > Sounds like the boot loader didn't get installed correctly. Try
booting
>  > some rescue system and reinstall grub or lilo.
>  >
>  > Tino.
> 
> Sounds reasonable.  So I boot to rescue mode, fdisk -l looks fine.  So
I
> do a chroot /mnt/sysimage and then:
> 
> grub-install /dev/sda
> 
> (this is one big RAID 5 array)
> 
> The error I get is:
> 
> The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly
> 
> Now what?

Look what I found:

grub> cat (hd0,0)/boot/grub/grub.conf

Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS

hmm...

So I have 6x500GB disks in RAID 5.  Is that too big?


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