[NCLUG] Repost Unbootable Ubunto install

Ben West mrgenixus at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 08:26:51 MDT 2008


you may not be able to boot from RAID, have you checked to make sure that
you can? I'd google "ubuntu lvm booting from raid"

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Lee Clark <lee_clark_ftc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thank you for your reply, I did it manually, and if you are asking is the
> flag set making the partition bootable?
> Yes it is I checked that, and I have rechecked it.
>
> I tried the auto mode and that would not do the pair of drives as raid0!
> If I ever find 2 more drives of the same size I plan on making them raid5,
> for now it is raid0
>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Repost Unbootable Ubunto install
>
> the bootable flag inst set on the partitionmost likely, this should have
> happened automatically, during partitioning, did you manually partition, or
> use the druid?  consider using the druid the first time...
> Ben
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Lee Clark <lee_clark_ftc at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Could any one out there help me get this to boot?
> > I reinstalled this again, this time it it did error out on installing
> Grub.
> > I tried to install Lilo and that too errored out.
> >
> > The system is as follows.
> >
> > It is a old PII 450 Mhz Net server E60 with a pair of SCSI 36.7gig
> drives.
> > I set the pair of them up as raid and then made the raid md0 as / ext3
> >
> > I added an older 1.6 gig ide drive and made a 450meg /boot
> > I set it to be bootable
> > the rest of this drive is set up as a swap drive.
> >
> > When I reboot, I receive an eror of no OS found.
> >
> > I have several other CD's including DSL and Knoppix
> > would someone walk me through the steps on how to make this boot
> >
> > Lee
> >
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