I have a debian box (v7.11, says /etc/debian_version) that is built on top of a RAID1 array, including the root filesystem. It has been perking along pretty reliably for years. Recently there was a problem with the motherboard (it doesn't power-up anymore, tried replacing the power supply, still nothing). So, I ran down to Free Geek and grabbed one of their $100 Dell Core 2 Due boxes and plugged the two SATA hard disks into the Dell, so far so good. But it is having trouble finding the arrays and therefore can't find the root filesystem. I also get a busybox error that says: "/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off" and I get an unresponsive prompt: "(initramfs)"
It seems like it ought to work, since the disks are the same, all the configuration should be self-contained. I get a grub menu, so it's reading the disk. I've tried modifying the kernel commandline within grub to use /dev/md0 as the rootfs instead of the uuid. It seems like the arrays aren't being re-assembled, but debugging output is so limited I can't really tell what is going wrong. I can live-boot an Ubuntu USB stick, and can reassemble the arrays, they are clean, I've made backups of the files. So WHY no workie? The partititions are raid-autodetect (or whatever that's called), and the arrays are metadata v0.9. Any ideas? Worst case, I can re-install. I'd rather not do that. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
