I didn't get a response off this list, however I did get help elsewhere. I wound up using Sabayon (don't ask, only distro that was happy with everything about my emergency PC with the drives installed) I was able to get my array up, do a mysqldump, get my photos off, and other stuff. I decided to let email go since, well I was doing pop access gmail, and my messages are still on google's servers.
I've re-thought my system situation. I had a mythtv system that was housing everything. I've still got the mythtv system, but it's in a different case that doesn't have the room for my raid array, and gets too hot with too much stuff in it anyhow. Thanks for the concern though, it's appreciated. -Richard On Sunday 04 March 2007 20:17, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Richard Smith wrote: > > Well, I've just had a motherboard die on me, in my kubuntu-amd64 system. > > This was after I had managed to recover my RAID array (one member got > > lost.. > > somehow no md superblock it said), but before starting to fix some sort > > of upgraded udev weirdness. This array was housing my music, photos, > > email, etc, all the stuff you don't want to lose. Managed to get things > > mounted and > > checked before I got too tired to continue. I had set up 4 disks in a > > RAID5 > > array, so that I wouldn't lose data if one drive died. The Hard drives > > were > > old, but the other bits of the computer are less than 18 months old. I > > didn't expect the motherboard to go kaput, and since it's a 754, a > > replacement board is a bit harder to come by. Oh, it's a software raid, > > made with mdadm, with a LVM group on top of it. Now, I've got a spare > > system that should POST fine, but it's an old 650 MHZ Athlon, and buried > > somewhere hard to get to. Would I be able to access this RAID to recover > > stuff, even though the filesystem was set up using tools compiled to run > > on 64 bits? Has anything similar happened to anyone else, and can you > > give me > > bits of advice? Also.. if I am able to recover stuff, should I migrate > > the system onto a single drive large enough to house my current system? > > (raid array was nowhere near full when this whole mess started). > > Did you ever get a response to this? > > Assuming 3 of the 4 drives are still good, you should be in good shape. > Just plug the drives into a spare box (Intel or AMD, 32 or 64 bit, it > doesn't matter) and boot with an Ubuntu CD. The system should > auto-detect both the RAID and LVM. You should be able to copy all of > your files to a removable hard drive. > > Linux's software RAID is a real win in this situation, BTW. Hardware > RAID cards are helpful when disks fail, but they're troublesome when > it's the motherboard that fails instead. > > Shane > _______________________________________________ > Ldsoss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
