Raid 1 on centos won't boot with 1 drive removed

[treeman]

I have just installed a fresh copy of centos 5 and created raid 1 on 2 drives.
Both my drives are 40gb but different brands. I successfully created raid 1 by following guides, which gave me this setup:

RAID Devices
/dev/md0 ext3 [check mark] 100
/dev/md1 swap [check mark] 1024
/dev/md2 ext3 [check mark] [remaining space]

Hard Drives
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 /dev/md0 software RAID [no check mark] 100
/dev/sda2 /dev/md1 software RAID [no check mark] 1024
/dev/sda3 /dev/md2 software RAID [no check mark] [remaining space]
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdb1 /dev/md0 software RAID [no check mark] 100
/dev/sdb2 /dev/md1 software RAID [no check mark] 1024
/dev/sdb3 /dev/md2 software RAID [no check mark] [remaining space]

I also instelled grub on both drives.

So everything is good the system is up and running, but I decide to test raid and unplug 1 of the drives, trying to boot only from the remaining 1.

I get the grub screen, then centos startup but it gives me bad superblock, a few lines with directories that can't be found and finally a kernel panic. When i replug so both drives are on system boots fine.

What am I doing wrong? I just want to make sure the system will be able to run if one drive fails. Thank you for any help guys!

[falko]

What's in /boot/grub/menu.lst? Did you try this guide? http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-fedora-8

[treeman]

Thank you for the guide, I actually managed to get it going by getting some ideas from the link.

The main thing that stuck out to me compared to the examples was the output from
cat /proc/mdstat

My output differed in this line
md2 : active raid1 sda3[0]
4618560 blocks [2/1] [CHUNKS]

instead of

md2 : active raid1 sda3[0]
4618560 blocks [2/1] [U_]

So i decided to reinstall and looks like its working now, I can boot from either hard drive after installing grub on both disks.

The main culprits that I can think of are:
1. It was late at night and I might of kept the last raid device as raid0 (default) instead of raid1
2. I installed kernel crash support on the initial installation which was also quoted in menu.lst from grub. This time I did not install kernel crash support

Now I am getting:

Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 hdb1[1] hda1[0]
200704 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active raid1 hdb2[1] hda2[0]
2048192 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md2 : active raid1 hdb3[1] hda3[0]
36828928 blocks [2/2] [UU]

Thanx for your help, and hope that somebody stuck in the same situation can get some info from me too.