On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 09:47 -0700, Joshua Miller wrote: > > If you could provide more info on "will not boot" error message we might > be able to help you more. Also if you can boot into rescue can you > mount the good drive? If so all your /etc should be there, if you didnt > know you should be able to mount /dev/sda6 as a normal ext device. All > this is assuming raid1 .. > > Joshua
Thanks Joshua, First, the SCSI BIOS says: Start Unit Request Failed Then, CentOS says: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block [0-7] (each in turn) then: md: pers->run() failed... mkrootdev: lavel / not found mount: error 2 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attemted to kill init! Grant ---------------- > > > > Sturgis, Grant wrote: > > Greetings list, > > > > Unfortunately, I'm in need of RAID recovery. I can probably wing it, > > but I've had problems in the past, and I don't want to blow it, so I'm > > asking for some help here. > > > > Two disks, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, sdb is the one that failed. The > > system can not start the second disk at all, but I do have a replacement > > disk. Also - the system will not boot with the one disk, and I'm > > guessing it panicked overnight. > > > > /dev/sda1 is /boot > > /dev/sda2 is /usr > > /dev/sda3 is /home > > /dev/sda4 is Extended > > /dev/sda5 is Swap > > /dev/sda6 is the RAID partition > > > > I'm in the process of restoring from tape the contents of /etc > > (particularly fstab and the mdadm.conf file). I'm guessing > > that /dev/sdb had a single partition that was the same size as /dev/sda6 > > and the two were married into /dev/md0 > > > > If so, any suggestions as to how to proceed are most welcome. > > > > (I am able to boot into CentOS 4.4 rescue mode, as well as boot into a > > Live CD). > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
