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Sometime you can issue some problems with your grub often when your server dosen't want to start, there are no needs to reinstall it, just to fix your grub.
 
  
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== fix the GRUB from the startup command line==
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==Grub==
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There may be an occasion when an issue with grub will cause your server to not boot, there is no need to reinstall the system, you just need to repair the installation of grub.
  
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Normally if grub can not start and your system is nice, you have a minimum order prompt ... otherwise go to [[grub#fix_the_GRUB_with_the_systemrescuecd|Chapter 2]].
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==Fix the GRUB from the startup command line==
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Normally if grub can not start and your system is not damagaed, you will have a basic system prompt ... otherwise go to [[grub#fix_the_GRUB_with_the_systemrescuecd|Chapter 2]].
  
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I suppose that your SME Server is on a RAID1 of two disks, otherwise you have to adapt this HOWTO.
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I presume that your SME Server is using a RAID1 of two disks, otherwise you have to adapt this HOWTO to your setup.
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In a terminal at the command prompt issue the following commands
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grub
 
  root (hd0,0)
 
  root (hd0,0)
 
  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
 
  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
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  setup (hd0)
 
  setup (hd0)
  
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  reboot
 
  reboot
  
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to /dev/sdb you implement of one, similar to the following disks (sdc, sdd, sde ....)
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to /dev/sdb you issue the following commands, using one of the following disk labels (sdc, sdd, sde ....)
  
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grub
 
  root (hd1,0)
 
  root (hd1,0)
 
  setup (hd1)
 
  setup (hd1)
  
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We must install grub on all other drives to give the capacity to operate the system. to reach the boot menu of the bios, well it depends on your hardware ... F12 under dell, Acer Esc, F11 from msi .... my sme is with Raid1 so I have two drives, you will need to adapt my example to your the number of disks.
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grub must be installed on all other drives to give the capacity to operate the system. To reach the boot menu of the bios, will depend on your hardware ... F12 under dell, Acer Esc, F11 from msi .... my sme is with Raid1 so I have two drives, you will need to adapt my example to your the number of disks.
  
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== fix the GRUB with the systemrescuecd ==
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==Fix the GRUB with the official SME Server CDROM ==
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I presume that your SME Server is on a RAID1 of two disks (sda, sdb), otherwise you will have to adapt this HOWTO.
  
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{{note box| We go to work with [http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage SystemRescueCd] which is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.[http://www.sysresccd.org/Download Download]. The goal is to get mounted your logical volumes on /mnt where you can save them on a usb disk.}}
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* start the system with your official SME Server CDROM
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I suppose that your SME Server is on a RAID1 of two disks, otherwise you have to adapt this HOWTO.
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* give at prompt : '''linux rescue'''
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* set your language and your keyboard
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* set to '''no''' the start of network interfaces
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* set to '''continue''' the question about how the system is mounted in /mnt/sysimage
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* set to '''ok'''
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* give at prompt :
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chroot /mnt/sysimage
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su -
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* then you can perform
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grub-install /dev/sda
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grub-install /dev/sdb
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do it for each disk you have on your server
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* to exit
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exit
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exit
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halt
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then you can test if the grub is present on your drives.
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==Fix the GRUB with the systemrescuecd ==
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{{note box| We go to work with [http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage SystemRescueCd] which is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.[http://www.sysresccd.org/Download Download]. The goal is to mount your logical volumes on /mnt where you can save them on a usb disk.}}
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I presume that your SME Server is on a RAID1 of two disks, otherwise you will have to adapt this HOWTO.
 
*start the system with your system rescue cd or you usb stick, choose your keyboard settings
 
*start the system with your system rescue cd or you usb stick, choose your keyboard settings
  
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*afterward if the LVM is launched without error messages, we can mount the LVM in /mnt
 
*afterward if the LVM is launched without error messages, we can mount the LVM in /mnt
  
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{{tip box|if you have a name of logical volume who is not '''/dev/main/root''', you can type this command for knowing all your logical volume, and adapt this to your configuration.}}
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{{tip box|if you have a logical volume that is not named '''/dev/main/root''', you can type the following command to list all your logical volumes, and then adapt this to your configuration.}}
  
 
  lvdisplay
 
  lvdisplay
  
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*Now you have successfully mounted your LVM then do this
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*Now you have successfully mounted your LVM do the following
  
 
  mkdir /mnt/sysimage
 
  mkdir /mnt/sysimage
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you can restart and continue the tutorial
 
you can restart and continue the tutorial
  
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===Installation of grub on the other disks===
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===Installation of grub on other disks===
  
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*once your Sme started, you need to login in Root
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*once your Sme started, you need to login in as root
 
then type
 
then type
 
  grub
 
  grub
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from there you can reboot your server and check that the grub is installed on each hd. it is simple, with the boot menu or bios, you say on what hd you want to boot .
 
from there you can reboot your server and check that the grub is installed on each hd. it is simple, with the boot menu or bios, you say on what hd you want to boot .
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to reach the boot menu of the bios, well it depends on your hardware ... F12 under dell, Acer Esc, F11 from msi ....  
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to reach the boot menu of the bios, well it depends on your hardware ... F12 under dell, Acer Esc, F11 from msi ....
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==Installation of grub on a new disk==
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When your system is started you can install grub by the command Line on any other disk you want. You have to change by the name of your new disk.
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[root@sme8dev64 ~]# grub
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Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
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    GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
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[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
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  lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
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  completions of a device/filename.]
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grub> device (hd0) /dev/sdb
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device (hd0) /dev/sdb
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grub> root (hd0,0)
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root (hd0,0)
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Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
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grub> setup (hd0)
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setup (hd0)
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Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
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Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
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Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
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Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
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Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1)"...  15 sectors are embedded.
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succeeded
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Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd1,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/grub.conf"... succeeded
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Done.
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grub> quit
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quit
  
 
==Fix Grub on a HP Proliant DL380 G2==
 
==Fix Grub on a HP Proliant DL380 G2==
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The forum posts describing the issues is [http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=48808.new;topicseen#new here]:
 
The forum posts describing the issues is [http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=48808.new;topicseen#new here]:
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The solution posted by CharlieBrady on the forums can be found [http://nozell.com/blog/2004/05/08/some-tips-to-reinstall-grub-on-an-hp-proliant-server/ here]:
 
The solution posted by CharlieBrady on the forums can be found [http://nozell.com/blog/2004/05/08/some-tips-to-reinstall-grub-on-an-hp-proliant-server/ here]:
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  Memory: 2GB RAM  
 
  Memory: 2GB RAM  
 
  Hard Drives: 6x 36.4GB
 
  Hard Drives: 6x 36.4GB
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  Compaq Hot-swappable 36.4GB, 10k or 15k RPM (mixed set) (BF03664664)
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Compaq Hot-swappable 36.4GB, 10k or 15k RPM (mixed set) (BF03664664)
  
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To re-configure GRUB, I followed these steps
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To re-configure GRUB, follow these steps
  
 
1. Rename /etc/grub.conf  to /etc/grub.old
 
1. Rename /etc/grub.conf  to /etc/grub.old
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cp /etc/grub.conf /etc/grub.old
 
2. edit /etc/grub.conf       
 
2. edit /etc/grub.conf       
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3. uncommented the line that starts with #boot=
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nano etc/grub.conf
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4. edited the boot= line to read
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3. uncomment the line that starts with #boot=
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      boot=/dev/cciss/c0d0
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4. edit the boot= line to read
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boot=/dev/cciss/c0d0
 
This line previously read (if i remember correctly) #boot=/dev/md0
 
This line previously read (if i remember correctly) #boot=/dev/md0
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5. opened /boot/grub/device.map  
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5a. I don't remember if the (hd0) line was correctly set.  It SHOULD read  
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5. open /boot/grub/device.map
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      (hd0)    /dev/cciss/c0d0
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nano /boot/grub/device.map
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5a. You SHOULD read  
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(hd0)    /dev/cciss/c0d0
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6. Ran GRUB with the following parameters:  
 
6. Ran GRUB with the following parameters:  
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      /sbin/grub --batch --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map
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/sbin/grub --batch --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --config-file=/boot/grub/grub.conf --no-floppy
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        --config-file=/boot/grub/grub.conf --no-floppy
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7. Ran the following commands in grub
 
7. Ran the following commands in grub
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  grub> root (hd0,0)
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grub> root (hd0,0)
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  grub> setup (hd0)
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grub> setup (hd0)
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  grub> quit
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grub> quit
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8. Restarted the server
 
8. Restarted the server
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At this point, everything ran properly
 
  
 
<noinclude>[[Category:Howto]][[Category:Administration:Storage]]</noinclude>
 
<noinclude>[[Category:Howto]][[Category:Administration:Storage]]</noinclude>

Latest revision as of 10:05, 9 November 2013

Grub

There may be an occasion when an issue with grub will cause your server to not boot, there is no need to reinstall the system, you just need to repair the installation of grub.

Fix the GRUB from the startup command line

Normally if grub can not start and your system is not damagaed, you will have a basic system prompt ... otherwise go to Chapter 2.

I presume that your SME Server is using a RAID1 of two disks, otherwise you have to adapt this HOWTO to your setup.

In a terminal at the command prompt issue the following commands 

grub
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd

setup (hd0)

Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 d (hd0)"... 16 sectors embedded
succeeded
Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/grub.conf"...
succeeded
Done.

reboot

to /dev/sdb you issue the following commands, using one of the following disk labels (sdc, sdd, sde ....) 

grub
root (hd1,0)
setup (hd1)

grub must be installed on all other drives to give the capacity to operate the system. To reach the boot menu of the bios, will depend on your hardware ... F12 under dell, Acer Esc, F11 from msi .... my sme is with Raid1 so I have two drives, you will need to adapt my example to your the number of disks.

Fix the GRUB with the official SME Server CDROM

I presume that your SME Server is on a RAID1 of two disks (sda, sdb), otherwise you will have to adapt this HOWTO.

  • start the system with your official SME Server CDROM
  • give at prompt : linux rescue
  • set your language and your keyboard
  • set to no the start of network interfaces
  • set to continue the question about how the system is mounted in /mnt/sysimage
  • set to ok
  • give at prompt :
chroot /mnt/sysimage
su -
  • then you can perform
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-install /dev/sdb

do it for each disk you have on your server

  • to exit
exit
exit
halt

then you can test if the grub is present on your drives.


Fix the GRUB with the systemrescuecd

Important.png Note:
We go to work with SystemRescueCd which is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.Download. The goal is to mount your logical volumes on /mnt where you can save them on a usb disk.


I presume that your SME Server is on a RAID1 of two disks, otherwise you will have to adapt this HOWTO.

  • start the system with your system rescue cd or you usb stick, choose your keyboard settings
  • then start the server X
startx
  • open a terminal to verify if your raid is initiated.
cat  /proc/mdstat
  • if you are lucky the output will look like this
# cat /proc/mdstat 
Personalities : [raid1] 
md99 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
      104320 blocks [2/2] [UU]
      
md100 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
      262036096 blocks [2/2] [UU]
      
unused devices: <none>
  • so we need to launch the LVM
vgchange -ay
  • afterward if the LVM is launched without error messages, we can mount the LVM in /mnt


Information.png Tip:
if you have a logical volume that is not named /dev/main/root, you can type the following command to list all your logical volumes, and then adapt this to your configuration. 


lvdisplay
  • Now you have successfully mounted your LVM do the following
mkdir /mnt/sysimage
mount /dev/main/root /mnt/sysimage
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/sysimage/dev
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/sysimage/proc
chroot /mnt/sysimage /bin/bash
  • We will have to mount the /boot of your system, which is normally contained in / dev/md1.

To do this you must send a 

cat /proc/mdstat
  • note the md(X) the smallest (about 100 megs) then in your root terminal do this:
mount /dev/md(X) /boot

and then 

grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)

you can restart and continue the tutorial

Installation of grub on other disks

  • once your Sme started, you need to login in as root

then type 

grub

device (hd0) /dev/sda
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
device (hd1) /dev/sdb
root (hd1,0)
setup (hd1)
quit
  • same for other drives, you implement one each time. My SME Server is with Raid1 so I have two drives, you will need to adapt my example to your the number of disks.

from there you can reboot your server and check that the grub is installed on each hd. it is simple, with the boot menu or bios, you say on what hd you want to boot . to reach the boot menu of the bios, well it depends on your hardware ... F12 under dell, Acer Esc, F11 from msi ....

Installation of grub on a new disk

When your system is started you can install grub by the command Line on any other disk you want. You have to change by the name of your new disk. 

[root@sme8dev64 ~]# grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.


    GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
  lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
  completions of a device/filename.]

grub> device (hd0) /dev/sdb
device (hd0) /dev/sdb

grub> root (hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd

grub> setup (hd0)
setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1)"...  15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd1,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/grub.conf"... succeeded

Done. 

grub> quit
quit

Fix Grub on a HP Proliant DL380 G2

see bugzilla:7024 for more information The server is configured using the Hardware RAID in RAID5, 6 drives as 1 logical drive (1 spare).

The forum posts describing the issues is here:

The solution posted by CharlieBrady on the forums can be found here: 

System information:
HP Proliant DL380 G2
Dual P3 1.266GHz (original system processors)
Memory: 2GB RAM 
Hard Drives: 6x 36.4GB
Compaq Hot-swappable 36.4GB, 10k or 15k RPM (mixed set) (BF03664664)

To re-configure GRUB, follow these steps

1. Rename /etc/grub.conf to /etc/grub.old 

cp /etc/grub.conf /etc/grub.old

2. edit /etc/grub.conf 

nano etc/grub.conf

3. uncomment the line that starts with #boot=

4. edit the boot= line to read 

boot=/dev/cciss/c0d0

This line previously read (if i remember correctly) #boot=/dev/md0

5. open /boot/grub/device.map 

nano /boot/grub/device.map

5a. You SHOULD read 

(hd0)     /dev/cciss/c0d0

6. Ran GRUB with the following parameters: 

/sbin/grub --batch --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --config-file=/boot/grub/grub.conf --no-floppy

7. Ran the following commands in grub 

grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

8. Restarted the server

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