On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:37:49 -0400, Joey L wrote: > hi all - i am in big trouble and really need good help. > > Something happened to my raid5 array on an ibm x3650 with raid-8k > controller. I am running debian squeeze with grub --- nothing fancy - > all my files are on the root filesystem. > > The array was not being recognized by the bios.
This is a hardware based RAID, right? How is that it was suddenly "unrecognized"? Or you mean it was degraded or being rebuilt? :-? > So i tried to do a revive - the raid array was rivived and came up with > a status of okay. How did you manage to do that? Rescanning from the BIOS of the RAID card? > I have the grub loader booting now but get the following error: > > error: invalid arch independent elf magic > > I tried googling it...I am very nervous about what I found to get me out > of this mess. > So i wanted to ask anyone out there --- how do i get out of it..please > help. Some questions first: - GRUB version (2 or legacy) - BIOS/UEFI? - Additional OSes / dual booting? What I'd would try is booting the system by another mean (from a LiveCD, using SuperGrubDisk...). If you can boot normally, it can be that the bootloader has been damaged somehow so I would try to reinstall it. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
