okay...i think i figured out my issue. it is with raid. i think i will need a way to check if raid devices are okay. the system boots but it complains about md1 which is my root system. i think md0 where my /boot ...everythign is okay there.. it looks like i lost 1 of my drives on md1 which is a raid5 device..but i still not able to boot.
mjh On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:36:18PM -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: >> i appriciate your help. >> i am not new to linux but i am new to lvm and raid and recovery. >> if you give me some simple steps, i can follow. >> i would really like the help because my main ssystem is down. >> please provide step by step proceedure..to ensure that i get my system >> up and running. >> can you point me to a how-to or something ?? > > sorry, I totally cut myself off in the last mail... > > as I was saying, within grub, you can edit the boot commands. There > *should* be some backup initrd's you could try. From the grub menu > type 'e' for edit, then (doing this from memory) arrow down to the > initrd line and type 'e' to edit the line. Next, move to the end of > the line and delete your way back to the point where it says > > initrd /initrd.img > > and press tab a couple of times to get a tab-completion list of > available initrd's. review the list and find the one foro your > kernel. it should be initd.img-2.6.24-something... there should be one > with a .bak extension... that's the one to try and see if it will > boot. > > please report back on the results > > A > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFImOQraIeIEqwil4YRAkUhAKCDJxxpj6bgFXHgPHMWwmeF/EQwQQCfb0wx > VqQ3VkyMRQeam2XiYCpuPO0= > =66jF > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
