Software RAID1 On A Running CentOS 5.4

Hi, I'm having some trouble setting up a RAID1 on CentOS 5.4.

I'm using this guide:
http://www.howtoforge.org/how-to-se...ing-system-incl-grub-configuration-centos-5.3

After installing Grub on the sencond hard drive (hdb in my case) and rebooting the system I get the login screen but right after filling my user/psswd the message "last connected from blablah" disppapears and it keeps asking for my login details. If I boot from the second kernel (root=LABEL=/) this doesn't happen.

This was my third try. Any ideas?

 

What's in /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab?

 

Hi Falko, I have both of them just like in the howto

fstab

Code:

/dev/md2                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/md0             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/md1         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

boot/grub.conf

Code:

..
fallback=1
title CentOS (2.6.18-164.11.1.el5)
        root (hd1,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 ro root=/dev/md2
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.img

title CentOS (2.6.18-164.11.1.el5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.img

..

 

What's the output of

Code:

fdisk -l

? Is this an LVM system?

 

I gave it another shot so here it is everything you asked for

/etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/md2                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/md0            /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/md1         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

/boot/grub/menu.lst

Code:

default=0
fallback=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.18-164.el5)
        root (hd1,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.el5 ro root=/dev/md2
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.el5.img
title CentOS (2.6.18-164.el5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.el5 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.el5.img

It's not LVM

so here it is the problem...

Code:

[root@centoso ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2              14         144     1052257+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3             145        1044     7229250   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdd: 8696 MB, 8696889344 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16851 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdd1   *           1         208      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hdd2             208        2295     1052257+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdd3            2296       16639     7229250   fd  Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/md2: 7402 MB, 7402684416 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 1807296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/md1: 1077 MB, 1077411840 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 263040 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/md0: 106 MB, 106823680 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 26080 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

I'm using VirtualBox for this. I googled the fact that partition 1 does not end on a cylinder boundary but apparently it isn't that big of a deal. Well it seems I didn't google enough.

I hadn't noticed that the raid arrays don't have a valid table though. Any suggestions at this point?

 

That is normal and nothing to worry about.

Is it possible to log in using SSH?

 

It doesn't make any difference if I log in through SSH. Actually Putty will close right after I try to log in just as if I was logging out.