[Wylug-help] RAID etc. revisited...

[Martyn Ranyard]

Hi Roger,

Although you'll have a bootsector on the 1T disk, you'll need a bootloader
in it.

With the  750 in, boot up and run something along the lines of grub-install
/dev/sd{letter of the terrabyte disk} as root, and yes, that's without a
partition number, grub's recommended install location is to the the
bootsector of the disk, not a partition.

That'll give you grub on that disk to boot from.

HTH
--
Martyn

On 25 September 2010 13:10, Roger <roger at roger-beaumont.co.uk> wrote:

> On 25/09/2010 11:12, Roger wrote:
>
>> Oops!
>>
> <etc>
>
> More info...
>
> I've no idea why that 'no partition table' error appeared.  Rechecking all
> the drives gave sensible results the intended tables on the 1T drives, no
> table on the 1.5Ts (I've created one on one of them, ready for the next step
> - adding the new drive to the array to get a mirror of the 750G drive).
>
> I still can't get the system to boot without that 750GB drive connected.  I
> set the 'bootable' flag on one of the 1T drives (and eventually remembered
> to write, not just quit), but that wasn't enough...  What else have I
> forgotten?
>
>
> An odd error with email (fetchmail, dovecot, then thunderbird via IMAP):
> some messages are shown with the wrong header info (Subject, From & date),
> in the inbox message list, but when looking at the message itself, the
> header shown there matches the message.  On the other hand, the headers in
> the list match up with messages I have been expecting...  Does anyone know
> where this glitch is likely to be located - is it in thunderbird's
> housekeeping info (on my Doze laptop), or in dovecot (on the server, with
> the RAID)?
>
> Again, TIA,
>
>
> Roger
>
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