If you could provide more info on "will not boot" error message we might be able to help you more. Also if you can boot into rescue can you mount the good drive? If so all your /etc should be there, if you didnt know you should be able to mount /dev/sda6 as a normal ext device. All this is assuming raid1 ..
Joshua Sturgis, Grant wrote: > Greetings list, > > Unfortunately, I'm in need of RAID recovery. I can probably wing it, > but I've had problems in the past, and I don't want to blow it, so I'm > asking for some help here. > > Two disks, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, sdb is the one that failed. The > system can not start the second disk at all, but I do have a replacement > disk. Also - the system will not boot with the one disk, and I'm > guessing it panicked overnight. > > /dev/sda1 is /boot > /dev/sda2 is /usr > /dev/sda3 is /home > /dev/sda4 is Extended > /dev/sda5 is Swap > /dev/sda6 is the RAID partition > > I'm in the process of restoring from tape the contents of /etc > (particularly fstab and the mdadm.conf file). I'm guessing > that /dev/sdb had a single partition that was the same size as /dev/sda6 > and the two were married into /dev/md0 > > If so, any suggestions as to how to proceed are most welcome. > > (I am able to boot into CentOS 4.4 rescue mode, as well as boot into a > Live CD). > > Thanks for your help. > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
