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Hello list, |
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Hardly had I said that MBR had caused me no problems in years, guess what? It |
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did. I tried to mount /boot (ext2) to install a new kernel but it couldn't be |
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mounted - wrong fs type or some such. When I got it mounted as ext4 it looked |
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fine. Fsck had found nothing wrong either, but fdisk showed the wrong partition |
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as Active. /boot is on /dev/md1 which is RAID-1 built on /dev/sd[ab]1, so sda1 |
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should have been marked Active (it was when I set it up), but the spare, empty |
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sda2 was instead. |
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On booting a rescue system and correcting the Active flag with fdisk, all the |
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files in it disappeared. So I put them back in and booted the main system. Same |
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all over again. |
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In the end I just zapped /, /var, /usr/portage etc, restored from an older |
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backup, synced and emerged -e world. Then restoring the files in /boot resulted |
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in a stable system. |
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Looks like time I investigated GPT or BTRFS. But I don't want to go from GRUB |
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legacy to GRUB-2. Is that possible? |
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Rgds |
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Peter |