Hi Nelson, Yes we did re-use the same harddisks, so we didn't have to touch the hardware RAID configs.
-eric --- On Mon, 7/20/09, Nelson Serafica <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Nelson Serafica <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [plug] Hack or Hard Drive Error > To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" > <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 5:12 PM > Hi Eric, > > Actually, this is my backup file server. Luckily, the > partition for backup is not damage only the / and /var. > > May I know if you still use the same hard disk when you > reinstall your OS? This hard disk was also run by CentOS. > > I'm starting to believe it could be a power interruption as > there is a chance that one of the tech guy here accidentally > touch the power chord of the > machine when he put the ventilation on the same power > extension chord :-( > > BTW, I'm not related to Serafica's of Burgundy. > > > Nelson > > eric rosel wrote: > > Hi Nelson, > > > > I saw the same symptoms just last weekend. A UPS > malfunctioned and caused power fluctuations before finally > dying (the irony of it all). After this, some servers > (running CentOS on hardware RAID5) were not able to boot-up > and just displayed the grub prompt. We booted from a > Linux CD in rescue mode and ran fsck, it found lots and lots > of errors. We decided it would be easier to just > restore from backups. You do have backups, don't > you? :-) > > > > HTH, > > -eric > > > > BTW, are you related to the Serafica's of Burgundy? > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
