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MALDATA
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 Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Have you try to umount the boot partition (umount /boot) and see what is the contain of the /boot directory (ls -a /boot) when nothing is mounted in? |
Yep. In fact, that was Jaglover's first reply also. I gave it a try, but there's nothing in /boot when it's not mounted. |
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MALDATA
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| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:17 am Post subject: |
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I tried a couple simple things... my grub menu has a listing for Windows, so in /boot I did a grep for that to see if maybe there were multiple files in there that grub might be looking at.
| Code: | # grep -r Windows *
grep: warning: boot/boot: recursive directory loop
boot/grub/grub.conf:title Windows XP Pro
boot/grub/menu.lst:title Windows XP Pro
grub/grub.conf:title Windows XP Pro
grub/menu.lst:title Windows XP Pro
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Since boot is a symlink to ./ and grub/menu.lst is a symlink to grub.conf, all these things in the list are the same file. By the way, those symlinks were made by the system, I didn't set it up that way.
Anyway, if I change the name in the Windows title line to something else, the change is not shown in the grub menu on a reboot. So, grub has to be getting its information from a different file. Anyone know if there's a way to ask grub which file it's reading? |
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dwbowyer
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| MALDATA: Thinking about your LAST post, I am wondering, is there ANY possibility that you have another /boot partition, such as say a separate Ubuntu install on any drive in the PC? Could it be that the system boots from a different grub installation than the Gentoo one and thus you would have another /boot/grub/grub.conf that is being read? |
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MALDATA
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 4:47 am Post subject: |
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Hi all,
I figured out what happened. My /boot partition is a software raid1. But when I took a look at cat /proc/mdstat, only one of the two drives was there. It wasn't that one device had failed... it just wasn't there at all. I have no idea what happened. So I had to do
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# mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/sda2
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to add the other drive back in, it synced them, and then all of a sudden, everything was cool.
So I guess my only question now is why would a drive just get booted out of a raid array? And is there something I should have been doing to keep an eye on it? |
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