[PLUG] disk under software mirror died

[Mike De La Mater]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 10:41, D. Cooper Stevenson wrote:
> The system will likely not boot at this point as the master boot record
> is not updated but it never hurts to try and can save time. If the
> system doesn't boot then:
> 
>   * Boot to Knoppix CD
> 
>   * Run GRUB (probably) or LILO to configure Master Boot Record Here's a
> nice bootloader guide:
> 
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10
> 

I've carefully been through the directions and set grub to boot from the
proper image on the correct drive, but it still will not boot. fdisk
shows the partitions as part of the RAID array, still.

I'm using knoppix to copy off the home directory to get ready to install
new drives. 

Is there a way to get it to boot so I can use the RAID to copy the data
onto the new drives?


> Let me know how it turns out.
> 
> 
> -Coop
> 
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 10:14 -0800, Mike De La Mater wrote:
> 
> > I have a RH9 system that will no longer boot.
> > I had identical Maxtor 40G disks, partitioned identically. hda died. The
> > system will no longer boot. I thought that the mirror recovery floppy I
> > made would help me make hdb bootable. It does not appear to help with
> > that, but will help me boot to /dev/md0 exclusively.
> > 
> > Booting into knoppix shows me that hda is unaccessable and hdb is as
> > expected.
> > 
> > What do I need to do to bring this system back up? 
> > 
> > 
> 
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