I did manage to reboot once (it gave an error, but ended up booting OK)
Then I installed all updates with yum and a few other minor software packages, did a reboot, and now all 3 options won't boot.
It gives many errors, including:
raid5rec.mod not found
error: no such device
no server is specified
you need to load the kernel first
I'm a software developer by trade. I have built my own PCs since the 1990s. I have decent knowledge of networking and Linux. My main PC has run Linux since 2011. However, Grub is one of my weak spots. I am also quite new to RAID.
Fresh install with Raid5 stuck on Grub
Re: Fresh install with Raid5 stuck on Grub
If you are trying to put /boot on a RAID 5 software RAID array then that would explain it. Only RAID 1 is supported for /boot when using software RAID. Hardware RAID doesn't care however.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Re: Fresh install with Raid5 stuck on Grub
I created a /boot/efi parition of type "EFI" on the drive -- no RAID of any kind -- BEFORE I used the rest of the available capacity for "/" which I assigned the attribute RAID5 using the drop-down.
RAID5 was successfully created; the drives rebuilt and everything.
(3) 2 TB hard drives in the RAID array
3700+ GB in the resulting LVM partition using RAID5.
Because I have the 250 MB /boot/efi partition, the system had to waste another 500 MB on the other 2 drives (because I didn't want to make the /boot/efi partition RAID of any kind.)
Does that help?
RAID5 was successfully created; the drives rebuilt and everything.
(3) 2 TB hard drives in the RAID array
3700+ GB in the resulting LVM partition using RAID5.
Because I have the 250 MB /boot/efi partition, the system had to waste another 500 MB on the other 2 drives (because I didn't want to make the /boot/efi partition RAID of any kind.)
Does that help?