Restoring grub MBR

[Paul M. Dyer]

As far as I know,  /boot cannot be an LVM volume.  It needs to be a real and primary partition.

Paul


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Zembower" <kzembowe at jhuccp.org>
To: "linux-poweredge at dell.com" <linux-poweredge at dell.com>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:14:40 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
Subject: Restoring grub MBR

In the continuing saga of trying to restore an old PE 2450 (see http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2008-August/037019.html), I was able to restore the server 'td' by booting the system with a Knoppix 5.1.1 CD. I had to run these commands, because the system uses the Linux Volume Manager:
  /etc/init.d/lvm start
  vgscan --mknodes
  vgchange -ay
  lvscan
  mkdir /mnt/logvol00
  mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/logvol00
  mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/logvol00/boot
  cd /mnt/logvol00
  rsync -azv root at t:/td/ ./

This restored the system from the host 't' and the directory '/td/', where the developers had continued their work.

My problem now is that the system refuses to boot, and instead, drops into the grub prompt. I've tried to boot it in CentOS5 'linux rescue' mode, where it finds the root directory and mounts it in /mnt/sysimage. Then, I 'chroot /mnt/sysimage; grub-install /dev/sda', but this errored, if I remember correctly. It didn't fix the problem. I then rebooted and got the grub prompt and tried:
  root (hd0,0)
  setup (hd0,0)
This seemed to work correctly (I got the two failures that it said were not significant), but it still booted into grub. I changed the second command to 'setup (hd0,1)' but got the same result.

Any suggestions on what I can try next? Any ideas what's going on?

Thanks, as always, for your advice, suggestions and help.

-Kevin

Kevin Zembower
Internet Services Group manager
Center for Communication Programs
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, Maryland  21202
410-659-6139


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