We are down to the last 5G on the RAID server in the house. So I went to Fry’s today and picked up two spankin’ new SATA 160G drives and a new SATA controller.
I get home and diligently start work on the upgrade. We currently have two drives in there running RAID-1. This has worked quite well for us and I plan to just add these other drives and bring up another raid set also running RAID-1. I install the card and then realize there is no way I can get four drives into this case. What the was I thinking?
No big deal. I get another excuse to run to Fry’s and buy something. I need a new case. They have already closed for the night so I button up the case with the SATA controller installed, put the machine back in the server room, and flip it back on. I will add the drives when I have a proper case tomorrow.
Just to make sure it’s up I start pinging it from my mac. It doesn’t answer.
Kind of a PITA since I don’t have a monitor in the server room. I pick it up and move it in next to walter (my windows box). I steal walter’s keyboard mouse and monitor and boot up the server.
Hurm. Getting stuck at boot with a corrupted GRUB. Probably a problem with grub getting confused due to the new IDE controller.
I pop the IDE controller back out of the box. I will reinstall it and figure this all out when I get the new case.
Boot without the SATA controller. No dice. Still hung at GRUB.
Uhm… This is the RAID-1 server with everything important on it. Why will it not boot?
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