Some progress. The CDROM problem that was preventing the D7.7 install
DVD from running in rescue mode was due to a defective USB DVD device.
Replacing that enables the rescue mode of the install DVD to run
properly. Rescue mode has assembled 7 raid partitions, and '/' was on
the 2nd partition (/dev/md122). /dev/md121 - which I first tried -
must be the boot partition that LILO is using (and I seem to recall
that when I built the original Lenny RAID system the installer
preferred to use LILO as the boot system, though I notice that recent
Wheezy machine builds are using GRUB).
I now have a rescue shell on '/' where '/' has been mounted at
/dev/md122. ls gives me the 1st level filesystem directory names that
I expect to see. I tried running mc so that could copy '/' to some
external device, but it couldn't be found; I think that may in part be
because the installer has only mounted the '/' partition and not the
other various partitions. I'll next look at fstab, and mount the
remainder of the filesystem.
I'm still uncertain how to start the Wheezy system that is just
sitting there. I'd like to be able to do that so as to check quickly
that everything that should run is running ok - unless that's a bad
thing to do at this stage.
I'm also uncertain how to find out what has gone wrong with the boot
system and how to rebuild it, including whether to replace LILO with GRUB.
First, though, I'm going to mount the file systems and try to image
things.
Suggestions are more than welcome,
regards, Ron
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