i'll take your advice and have rescue floppies at the ready. it has been a very long time, since potato, since i have used rescue disks.
can i make them from my machine? i don't have a cdrom connected to this machine so i need floppies. i found images on the debian site but they were for woody ... i am running sarge. suggestions? --- martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach harland christofferson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.09.19.0405 > +0100]: > > okay, this is what i have done: > > > > # umount /dev/hdc8 > > # mdadm /dev/md4 --fail /dev/hdc8 > > # mdadm /dev/md4 --remove /dev/hdc8 > > # mdadm /dev/md4 --add /dev/hdc8 > > > > cat-ed /proc/mdstat and see that it is resynching > ... > > good news. > > > > now, part two of your suggestion ... unmounting > > /dev/hdaX partitions, editing fstab, and > remounting. > > > > won't this cause my system to go belly up? > > You need to do this from a rescue disk. I recommend > grml. > > Even though the above procedure *does* restore your > RAID and you > change /etc/fstab such that on next boot, /dev/mdX > would be mounted > instead of /dev/hdaX, between the --add and the > reboot, something > will write to /dev/hdaX and you're back to where you > started from. > > If you don't have a rescue disk, here's one way > which would probably > also work, but I can't guarantee it. > > back up the important files > change /etc/fstab accordingly > fail and remove /dev/hdcX from all arrays > call mdadm --zero-superblock on all /dev/hdcX > partitions > reboot > readd all /dev/hdcX partitions to the appropriate > arrays > > -- > .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : :' : proud Debian developer, author, > administrator, and user > `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - > http://debiansystem.info > `- Debian - when you have better things to do > than fixing systems > > "and the sea isn't green > and i love the queen > and what exactly is a dream? > and what exactly is a joke?" > > -- syd barrett > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]