Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-02-02 Thread David Gaudine
On 11-01-31 8:47 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: The easy way out is to boot from a rescue disk, fix the mdadm.conf file, rebuild the initramfs, and reboot. The Real Sysadmin way is to start the array by hand from inside the initramfs. You want mdadm -A /dev/md0 (or possibly mdadm -A

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4d49816b.1040...@alcor.concordia.ca, David Gaudine wrote: I have one more question, just out of curiousity so bottom priority. Why does this work? mdadm.conf is in the initramfs which is in /boot which is on /dev/md0, but /dev/md0 doesn't exist until the arrays are assembled, which requires

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-02-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, dav...@alcor.concordia.ca a écrit : My system went down because of a power failure, and now it won't start. I use RAID 1, and I don't know if that's related to the problem. The screen shows the following. Loading, please wait... Gave up waiting for rood device. Common problems:

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-02-01 Thread David Gaudine
On 11-01-31 8:47 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: On Monday 31 January 2011 10:51:04 dav...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: I posted in a panic and left out a lot of details. I'm using Squeeze, and set up the system about a month ago, so there have been some upgrades. I wonder if maybe the kernel or Grub was

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-02-01 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:38 AM, David Gaudine dav...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: On 11-01-31 8:47 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: On Monday 31 January 2011 10:51:04 dav...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: I posted in a panic and left out a lot of details.  I'm using Squeeze, and set up the system about a

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-01-31 Thread davidg
show md_mod. David Original Message Subject: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?) From:dav...@alcor.concordia.ca Date:Mon, January 31, 2011 10:18 am To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-01-31 Thread davidg
My system went down because of a power failure, and now it won't start. I use RAID 1, and I don't know if that's related to the problem. The screen shows the following. Loading, please wait... Gave up waiting for rood device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-01-31 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 31 January 2011 10:51:04 dav...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: I posted in a panic and left out a lot of details. I'm using Squeeze, and set up the system about a month ago, so there have been some upgrades. I wonder if maybe the kernel or Grub was upgraded and I neglected to install