Grub and Software raid

[nweaver]

I have an old server I am installing gentoo on, and I have reached (nearly) the end and have hit this issue. I am trying to install grub, but it does not see my raid 1 (/dev/md0) as valid for install, which I didn't think it would. grub-install /dev/sdh also fails (unknown partition type)

Setup:

/dev/sda-/dev/sdg are 2 GB drives, one partition in a raid 5 (/dev/md1) (reiserfs)
/dev/sdh and /dev/sd1 are 2 gig drives in raid 1 (/dev/md0) (ext2)


I go into the grub command line, and try and try and type device (hd0) /dev/sdh it fails with the error: Filesystem type unknown, partition type is 0xfd

If I type in "grub> find /boot/grub/stage1" I get the error: Error 15, file not found.

I have /boot mounted, and have gone into it and edited files, so I know the software raid is functioning. Any ideas on what i could try?

 

[groovin]

can u post your grub.conf and perhaps your raidtab or mdadm.conf?

 

[nweaver]

going to try...this is an old HP Proliant 7000 without USB, gotta find a working floppy :/

 

[nweaver]

raidtab


I have been using This page to help me set up the box. But when I type
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
I get
Error 15: File not found

 

[TGS]

I did the same step by step with gentoo. It refused to boot off of the software raid.

I would check with gentoos forums, as it seems that some easy step is missing from the directions.