OpenSuse 12.1 won't boot after mainboard replacement

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I have Opensuse 12.1 installed on my computer and I recently had a problem with the mainboard. After replacing the board it will not boot. All I get is a blinking cursor. I have 2 Hard Drives set up as Raid0 (Linux Raid) It is configured with Elilo and has a efi partition on the first hard drive. I booted up with a live CD and I can mount MD0 MD1 & MD2 . I mounted the boot partition with elilo and everything is there. Can anyone help me out here, I tried plugging the sata ports every possible way. With changing the mainboard does it change the UUID of the HD? I installed OpenSuse 12.1 on another hard drive and it is functioning fine and I can access the raid devices fine, but I need to fix this so I can boot up .Below is some info on my system. Thanks Chad
Don’t know why but it says on one of my hard drives partition table is ms dos and the other is GPT. Don’t know why?
The raid devices were configured during installation with yast , So i imagine it is software raid .
I have the bios set up just like the original MB with EFI and Raid enabled
the MB is a INTEL DH67BL

Operating System : Opensuse 12.1 X86_64 Bit
Hard Drives:2 WD Velociraptor 600 GB set up in Raid 0
File System : GPT
Bootloader : ELILO EFI

fl-71-0-79-181:/home/chad # parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD6000HLHX-0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 600GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 21.5GB 21.5GB primary raid, type=fd
2 21.5GB 397GB 376GB primary raid, type=fd
3 397GB 595GB 198GB primary raid, type=fd
4 595GB 600GB 5266MB primary linux-swap(v1) type=82

Model: ATA WDC WD6000HLHX-0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 600GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 371MB 370MB fat16 primary boot
2 371MB 21.8GB 21.5GB ext4 primary raid
3 21.8GB 398GB 376GB primary raid
4 398GB 595GB 198GB primary raid
5 595GB 600GB 4896MB linux-swap(v1) primary

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New board = new BIOS is the new BIOS set to efi?

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yes it is set to efi

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On 2012-04-05 23:56, chadlogan wrote:
> With changing the mainboard does it change the UUID of the
> HD?

uuid no. Id I dunno, path yes.
And the boot order can change, too.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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If you don’t know why and you didn’t do it, then the installer must have done a bad job IMO. Though only the boot disk needs to use GPT, it doesn’t look very clean. If the boot device has an MBR (as it seems to be the case here), it’s not impossible that the BIOS switches to legacy mode. In any case, I would connect the GPT disk to the first SATA port. Out of curiosity, do you remember if the dos partitioned HDD (currently sda) was totally blank (without a partition table) when you first installed this system?

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Yes it was a new clean hard drive that I only ran the installer on. I configured software raid with the installation disk… For the time being I installed another hard drive , installed Opensuse 12.1 on the third hard drive and I can access the raid. I am up and functional. But I need to figure out how to repair the Raid so that I can boot up on the Kernel installed on the raid. Thanks, Chad

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I have researched about manually booting linux, but with this being a raid configuration complicates things for me .