[RAS] nebka down

[Christian Zimmermann]

The drive is marked as bootable (cfdisk).

Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:

>
>  Christian Zimmermann writes
>
>> I got the BIOS and RAID facility to recognize the drive swap. Good.
>>
>> But it does not start grub. Bad.
>
>  Fatal. There is the off-chance I did not mark the drive as
>  bootable in the partition table.
>
>> Note that I switched / and /vol in fstab. But that is read after
>> grub, right?
>
>  I don't think you should have switched. But you are correct
>  this should not matter until grub is loaded. You did switch
>  the drives?
>
>  Try again with the bios, it if it sees the 140 G as the
>  first drive. If it does, it is probably not bootable.
>
>  Switch back, boot, look at the partition table
>
> cfdisk /dev/sdb
>
>  there sholud be a "boot" flag on the large sdb1 partion.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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