mbernhardt Posted June 15, 2004 Report Share Posted June 15, 2004 OK, there's got to be something simple that I'm missing. I NEED HELP DESPERATELY. I have a Linux Red Hat 7.3 running kernel 2.4.x. GRUB is the boot loader. It has 3 data partitions- /, /usr, /var, which are set up on Linux RAID partitions (md0, md1 and md2 respectively). Swap is not on RAID, it uses an extra partition I created on each of the 2 drives. I backed it up fine. Then I rebuilt it, being careful that the partitions laid out the same, and that the boot loader was being installed on the same partition- md0- as before. When all was ready, I set about doing a restore- to verify and document the procedure. Well, I have not succeeded yet. I do a restore entire volume, one for each partition. I did not back up or restore /dev/shm. I reboot, and Linux stops at GRUB It never makes it to the splash screen. I guess it can't find the boot loader? What gives? What am I doing wrong? This has happened all 5 times I've tried and I am getting VERY frustrated. I can't believe Retrospect is the problem... HELP!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted June 21, 2004 Report Share Posted June 21, 2004 Hi I suspect grub is confused and is not aware of the restored files. Try this: Boot from your install CD and hit CTRL X to get a terminal prompt. Then type: linux initrd= root=/dev/hdxx (for the last bit enter the root partition of your system) Then run: grub -install That should update the boot info in Grub so it knows how to boot up your restored system. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbernhardt Posted July 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 Thanks for your reply. I worked with Dantz's Linux guy and we found a solution. He said he hoped to publish something in the knowledge base about Linux restores- a darned good idea, I'd say. For posterity's sake and for the sake of others who may come across the same problem, here is the solution. This is done AFTER the restore but BEFORE rebooting: 1. Make sure that fstab and grub.conf point to the correct mount points and partitions respectively for the current installation. If the mount points in fstab are symbolic (i.e. /usr is on partition "/usr") then you don't have to worry about it. 2. Run grub and type the following: grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) Now you can safely reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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