Installing 10.04 to 2TB disk, does not boot

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Wed May 19 07:51:51 UTC 2010


>>>> Get a terminal, switch to root and let's try the following.
>>>>
>>>> mkdir /mnt/2tbroot
>>>> mount /dev/sdd4 /mnt/2tbroot
>>>> mount /dev/sdd3 /mnt/2tbroot/boot
>>>
>>> Aehm, /mnt/2tbroot/boot will not exist... ?
>>
>> Eh? I thought /dev/sdd4 was root....
>
> Yes.
>
>> So...was filesystem is /dev/sdd4 hosting? /home? /var? /usr? ???
>
> Yes, but there was no /boot

That does not make sense. /boot is where all the kernel images are kept 
besides the grub files. You should at least have a placeholder /boot 
directory on root.


>
>> Actually, nevermind that. Which partition hosts /? Do you have a raid mirror that hosts / on another disk or something?
>
> Don't worry, I partially gave up. I need to bring this system up and running, so I decided to use one single disk (smaller than 2 TB) for /boot (and the boot loader). This should allow booting my machine. The rest of the system will then go to a RAID5 on the remaining four disks (these will be 2TB). I can still tweak this into something more elegant once I fully understand what the core of the problem is.
>

Oh, I am so not worrying. I won't be rolling out any new servers based 
on Ubuntu. Not with this sort of thing going on.




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