Why the system fails to boot after replacing a disk in Hardware RAID array?
Issue
- After replacing a failed disk in the
RAID
array, system fails to boot - How to rebuild the Hardware
RAID
array after one of the failed disks have been replaced? - System boots up fine if the new disk is removed from the
RAID
array(mirror), but fails to boot if both the disks are attached in the array. - While booting up system fails to obtain some of the files required to boot the system.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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