I awoke to a buzzing sound the other morning and discovered it was coming from inside the case of my newish master frontend/backed mythbox. Mythdora 5 is installed on it. It turned out to the bearing on my main 320G drive. I bought a replacement and got just about everything copied to the new 500G drive. I had both drives mounted and used the Mythdora 5 rescue mode with rsync to copy stuff across. I attempted to duplicate things as much as possible with respect to LVM2 setup, but of course I had to change the names a bit. (I used rootvg2 for the base volume group on the new drive and just made the storage partition an ext3 partition and mounted it directly.)
The problem is that Grub doesn't want to play along.
After the rsyncing was complete, I booted with into rescue mode and ran the chroot /mnt/sysimage command so that I could run grub-install. I had some trouble that seems to be related to the version of grub and it's reliance on /etc/mtab. I found an possible solution for that and finally got grub-install /dev/sda to run without error. The problem is that when I boot, the computer goes through the normal post sequence and just displays:
GRUB
And never goes into the boot sequence for Fedora.
Now I need to figure out how to get this machine back in operation without losing everying and re-installing. Although maybe it comes down to that?
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