Rescue software RAID system

[Bill Thanis]

Check grub2-install

You are probably looking for the --target or --directory
 options.

Bill



On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:17 PM, William Muriithi <
william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Evening,
>
> I am curious if someone has gone through this, I have a centos 6 system
> with the operating system running on RAID 1 (software based).
>
> Sometimes over weekend, one of the drive failed. That exposed a mistake I
> did when setting up the RAID. It looks like grub is pointed to one of the
> disk, which unfortunately happen to be the broken one.
>
> I have tried a bit of things that don't seem to work. My biggest hope was
> to repoint grub from hd0 to hd1. I did that from the grub prompt and didn't
> work. Seem to still be poking the dead drive instead of the good pair.
>
> So I booted from a rescue CD, used mdadmin to start RAID device, mounted
> the device and tried to chroot into the mount directory and don't work,
> don't seem to have chroot binary in my rescue environment.
>
> Will give it another try tomorrow but can someone see a problem with this
> approach?  Or rather, how did you guys approach it?
>
> Any advice would be highly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> William
>
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