Rob, I have tried that (super grub boot disk) first, but I couldn't fix my problem. It’s very likely that I was doing something wrong, as I have started more serious RTFM only after that first failed attempt :-). Then the Debian live CD route worked for me.
Thanks, Tad ________________________________________ From: Rob Owens [row...@ptd.net] Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013 00:42 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Booting degraded software raid1 with failed /dev/sda ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tad Bak" <t....@uws.edu.au> > > Background. > I have Debian Wheezy 64bit installed on a machine with 2 SATA drives. > On the hard drives I have two software RAID1 partitions, md0 and > md1. The bigger md1 uses LVM and has separate volumes for swap, > /tmp, /var, /opt, /usr, and /home. Everything was working fine, > until one day the sda disc crashed and the system was not bootable > anymore. This is how I have learned that by default Debian installs > grub only on /dev/sda in RAID1 configuration. Despite the fact that > /dev/sdb was still fine, I had no working system, as I couldn't boot > it. After two days of Google search I have found a solution, which > might be of interest to somebody in similar situation. > Would super grub boot disk have worked for you? I have used it plenty of times to boot a system w/ a messed up grub, but I don't know if I've ever tried it on a system that used software RAID 1. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e2cb61cacd6ecc46a6fbd0296822a23755521...@hirt.ad.uws.edu.au
