Hi,
after booting the system in safe mode, without touching anything, the
background task kicked in rebuilding the three raid devices. But
there still are problems with the file system... After rebooting, the
message with the overlapping physical units was gone, but the machine
still did not boot by it's own... can we safely run fsck???
Jochen
At 20:06 Uhr +0200 20-6-00, Jochen Haeberle wrote:
>Hi,
>
>about half a year ago I set up a Raid-Server with Mirroring. It run
>fine and rebuild nicely when one disk was removed from it's bus.
>
>Today we had a crash of the machine due to heat problems caused
>probably by a broken fan :-(
>
>At the moment my colleague at the location is trying to get the
>machine back to work, at present with an open chasi. But the Raid
>does not recreate automatically... The problem mentioned striking me
>most is "md0 has overlapping physical units with md2"... this does
>not sound very good to me...
>
>Both hds seem to be there and get added to the devices, though
>
>The machine is running SuSE 6.3 with raidtools 0.90 and a patched
>lilo allowing it to boot from a raid-device. This was an early
>version of the RedHat patch to lilo that did not function correctly.
>It does boot from raid, but only if the first device is there. After
>some discussion on this list I provided an additional boot disk for
>the case this bootable hd fails.
>
>But the machine does not boot correctly. It tries rebuilding the RAID
>but stops with the about message and leaving us on our own...
>
>Anyone had this problem with overlapping physical units??? How can
>this happen? What can we do now?
>
>May we run fsck on the md devices???
>
>PLEEEEAAASE Help
>
>Regards and thanks in advance
>
>Jochen
