I have a qmail toaster system that was set up with software mirroring. I mirrored the /boot and / partitions, and striped the swap across the 2 drives. During our latest unplanned power outage (yes I have "put off" moving the system back to our cabinet), the primary slave drive decided to die.
Now, the entire system refuses to boot, returning a "error loading operating system" message. I have tried simply pulling the dead slave drive and attempting to boot, but get the same message. Isn't this what mirroring is supposed to protect against? I assume the power outage caused the failing drive to corrupt something that was then synced to the good drive during the final milliseconds before power went out, but I've got to tell you, this latest foray into RAID failure is really causing me to not trust RAID.... Okay, enough of the rant. Have any of you ever dealt with this message before? I assume it is some sort of MBR corruption that needs to be fixed and then the system with automagically boot up and run just fine? Another alternative I am considering is building a new QMT, putting this drive in, mounting /home from the crashed system (for email accounts and data) and copying over /var/qmail/control and such? Of course, the beauty of all of this is that I am at Disneyland with my family and trying to walk my technicians (who work mainly on Windows) through doing this... Thanks for any pointers. Aaron Spurlock --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]