Re: [SOLVED] Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-15 Thread Ron Leach
On 14/03/2015 22:45, Bob Proulx wrote: Normally the idea in rescue mode is that you are presented with a shell with the root in your main system. At that point you can mount the rest of your system. It would normally be like this: # mount -a However seeing those large numbers 121 and 121

Re: Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Ron Leach wrote: > 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. Yay! Progress! > Rescue mode has assembled 7 raid partit

Re: Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-13 Thread David Christensen
On 03/13/2015 12:34 AM, Ron Leach wrote: Some progress. ... 1. Please read this post: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg01113.html 2. It's been my experience that trying to "find the needle in the haystack" is an exercise in futility -- even if I do "fix" something an

Re: Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-13 Thread Ron Leach
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 partitio

Re: Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-12 Thread Ron Leach
[Sorry I cannot cite or credit the help messages I'm responding to.] There are around 6 partitions on these disks, I think separate /tmp, /var, maybe a separate /srv, I cannot recall exactly because this machine was first built with Lenny a few years ago. (And without any way to look at what'

Re: Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-12 Thread Johann Klammer
On 03/12/2015 10:40 PM, Ron Leach wrote: > List, good evening, > > Been adding some security upgrades on a Wheezy server, these included > upgrading the kernel to the latest - I cannot be precise but I think it > changed from --u5 to --u7. It's pae 386. 3.65, I think, but that's from > memory

Re: Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-12 Thread David Christensen
On 03/12/2015 02:31 PM, Ron Leach wrote: ... I cannot boot the system from the sda or sdb. First, archive your backup, image the operating system drive, archive the image, and put the archives off-site. Do you have an image of your system drive from when it was working? If, so, restore it

Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot

2015-03-12 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, Been adding some security upgrades on a Wheezy server, these included upgrading the kernel to the latest - I cannot be precise but I think it changed from --u5 to --u7. It's pae 386. 3.65, I think, but that's from memory. I can't check any of this because I cannot boot