[ILUG] Booting Dapper after install

[Sonic]

Stephen Shirley wrote:

> On 02/08/06, Sonic <sonic at dreadserver.com> wrote:
>
>> root (h0,0)
>>  Filesystem type unknown , partition type 0xfd
>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-server root=/dev/md1 ro quiet splash
>> Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
>
>
> I'm pretty sure 0xfd is the partition type for linux software raid.
> The problem is that grub doesn't seem to undetrstand that. I'd try
> changing the 'root (hd0,0)' line to 'rootnoverify (hd0,0)', as grub
> most likely understands the fs on the partition once it looks past the
> partition id. I'm not saying it'll work though ,-)
>
> Steve

Hi Steve,

I tried adding noverify by pressing 'e' and editing the line from grub. 
I then pressed 'b' to boot from there but there was no difference. You 
mentioned that grub doesn't seem to understand software RAID partitions 
but it hadn't any problems when the machine was running Debian.

Jordi Jané wrote:

> I had a problem the other day that reminds me about this. I didn't 
> have RAID, however.
>
> The problem I found was that the boot flag was not set in any partition.
>
> Is this any use to you? 

Hi Jordi,
I went back into the partitioner and set both disks' bootable status to 
on but I'm still getting the same results.

Thanks to you both for your suggestion and sorry I haven't replied 
sooner, I was very busy. Any more suggestions?

Cheers,

Sonic