can't restore/boot from raid1 array

[okcomputer44]

Hi guys!

I'm having a problem with my raid1 device. I have installed the whole system into 3 raid device.

md0 = ext2 /boot /raid1
md1 = ext3 / /raid1
md2 = swap /raid1

So I followed the instructions from feew site how to install the correct raid1 and how to restore it.

Problems:

- I can't boot the second hdd when I emulate an hdd error (disconnected the first hdd)
I tried booth way sda/sdb booth didn't work

- I reboot the system with rescue disk and the installer said i can't find any disk in the
system.

- Because of the installer can't find disk I can't start the grub to restore and setup any
disks at all.

- When the system try to boot from second disk I can't login into grub too.


The disk was resynced and I checkd it with cat /proc/mdstat 100% done

When I simulated the second disk failure the system was able to boot from first disk everything worked fine.

Basically there is no anything at all in fedora book about raid devices restore(Fedora 5, I had a look the Fedora 8 book in PCWORLD and same)
I googled that how to restore the disk(s) in raid 1 and I just find out many different ideas.(basically 80% was the same but)

So do I need to buy a raid1 hardware scsi card guys?

I need to solve this problem soon.

Thanks for any advice.

Laz

[okcomputer44]

So it seems like I didn't do the grub sync to boot from booth disks. silly me!

When the new install done check the disk syncs.
When the disks syncs done(cat /proc/mdstat) run the grub.

>grub
>grub: root (hd0,0)
>grub: setup (hd0)
>grub: root (hd1,0)
>grub: setup(hd1)

quit.

Change the defect device. (hw setup)

run the mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb1
mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdb2

cat /proc/mdstat recovery = 55% wait for sync then repeat the grub sync!!!!


I'll check it how it goes cos I'm not sure about the superblock, and sfdisk too.
Some page said needs to copy partitions and some page does not.

Laz