[CoLoCo] RAID killed my box - aaaagh!

[TC]

What is grub pointing at?  If it's not pointing at md0, it might not work.

When you boot, get to editing the command line, and backspace over quiet
splash, so you get a more verbose boot.


Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> Refer to the old thread on "SATA RAID controller" for the back history.
> 
> I managed to get my RAID 1 setup working last night - at least it seemed
> to rebuild/copy to the mirror drive. However, when I rebooted the
> computer nothing happened. Well, grub loads and then the ubuntu splouash
> screen shows, but then it just hangs. Booting the recovery mode has the
> same effect. The line it hangs on isn't the same each time but on a
> couple tries had something to do with USB which doesn't make any sense
> to me. I did manage to see some text scroll by referring to RAID and
> then later RAID again but something about stopping. My guess is it's
> starting the RAID drives then doesn't like something so unloads it
> causing the system to hang as it has nothing to read - but that's just a
> guess.
> 
> Anyone have any tips/suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> -jim
> 
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