On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 10:02, Marc Nozell wrote:
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?
I'm not sure - the RAID controller says that data loss will occur if you
delete a logical drive. I mistakenly deleted the logical drive of this
disk. It takes no time at all for this to take effect, so I assumed that
it just deleted the partition table.
I tried using fdisk to create one large partition on the disk, hoping
that mount would look at the beginning of the partition to find the
filesystem, but I was unable to mount anything.
Unfortunately, the point is moot now. I've decided to restore from last
night's backup.
Scott
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Scott Garman
sgarman at iname dot com
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