SOLVED: RAID5 config / boot problem

2006-02-07 Thread james . barton
>> you can get around all of the above by simply using your own custom >> kernel with built in drivers for that sata controller >> - modules is for job security for those that want to >> build up hours to help corps debug systems that wont boot :-) > > So I just need to make myself a new

Re: RAID5 config / boot problem

2006-02-03 Thread james . barton
Hey Alvin, > if files/directories disappeared.. > > a) your raid is corrupt in one or more ways > b) you do have backups before the corruptions started to show I think what happened was that, because I didn't have a /home entry on fstab, files I created in /home/cjb were actually on the / partiti

Re: RAID5 config / boot problem

2006-02-02 Thread james . barton
Hi Alvin, I had a chance to think over the problem, and it looks much closer to solution now. I had tried to mount the array on /home after boot, but the complaints suggested to me that the array didn't exist as far as the mounter was concerned. So I ran mdadm --assemble (with --scan, IIRC), left i

Re: RAID5 config / boot problem

2006-02-01 Thread james . barton
Hi Alvin, Thanks for taking the time to reply. First of all, I should have clarified that I am booting from hda, which is another drive that is not in the RAID system at all. Booting is fine apart from stopping for the fsck failure - the system comes up and appears to work. >> e2fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-

RAID5 config / boot problem

2006-02-01 Thread james . barton
Hi all, Please let me know if this message is inappropriate for this list. I think I have a superblock problem on my RAID device, but I could be wrong. Also, much of the screen output recorded here was retyped, so might contain minor errors, which are mine and not Debian's. I'm trying to put toget