[arch-general] dmraid boot fail (grub errors 5 & 24) - follow up

Isaac Dupree ml at isaac.cedarswampstudios.org
Wed Nov 10 06:56:15 CET 2010


On 11/10/10 00:40, David C. Rankin wrote:
> 	Normally that is a "Hey stupid, you have a drive failing... go fix it" issue.
> But it's not. smartctl is fine on all drives -- "no errors logged". Nothing in
> syslog or dmesg, and the disks are clean.

I suppose you've looked around the smartctl FAQ and documentation to see 
whether smartctl being okay guarantees that the disk is okay?
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki
I didn't find my answer within a minute, but you know your system 
better, the type of disk, etc., and you can also use google combining 
this stuff.

-Isaac


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