Sorry for the delay in replying. Our ISP was down for more than a day :-(
---- Alexander V. Makartsev wrote on 1/25/26 1:05 PM:
So my first suggestion is to make a bootable USB thumb drive with Live system on it, to exclude possible interference with other disks.
It turns out that the BIOS on the computer doesn't seem to provide any way to boot from USB. The best I can do, as far as I can tell, is to create a live DVD and boot from that.
So I have booted from a live CD (which is very slow, but does eventually succeed), and made sure that the only hard drive in the machine is the RAID device that I am trying to fix.
I also need output from these commands, to see how your MD arrays were setup, their current states, disk partition table, UUIDs, etc: blkid ls /dev/md* #Asterisk here because when I setup MD RAID with Debian installer, arrays were named md0 and md1. First is swap and second is root. cat /proc/mdstat mdadm --detail /dev/md* fdisk -x
Here are the results of the commands above: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/870538a2
cat /etc/fstab #After chroot ofcourse
_Exactly_ what chroot command do you want me to type at this point?
Maybe your experiments with "grub rescue>" will be useful and reveal more information.
That's the next thing to try to do, now that I have Internet access back so that I can download and study the documents.
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