Brand new 2950 Won't Boot

[Sturgis, Grant]

Looks like this is a known bug.

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1616

I am going to re-configure the array to two RAID 5 sets and see if that 
fixes it.



Sturgis, Grant wrote:
> 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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