On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 09:38, Scott Garman wrote: > My situation: I have an HP server with two hot-swap SCSI drive bays. > It's got a RAID controller in it, which has to "initialize" new drives > before they can be recognized by the controller. It refers to them as > "logical" drives. > > I have inadvertently deleted the logical drive on the original disk, and > I can not boot to Linux anymore. I am certain that all that's happened > is the RAID controller re-wrote a new partition table with no > partitions. When I boot from a RHEL 3.0 CD in rescue mode, it sees the > drive detected as /dev/cciss/c0d0, whereas before it was > /dev/cciss/c0d0p1. >
The /dev/cciss/c0d0 refers to the entire first disk (think /dev/sda), while /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 (think /dev/sda1) refers to the first partition on the first disk. Um, did you just trash your entire disk? -marc -- Marc Nozell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.nozell.com/blog/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss