Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system - raid recovery?

Christofer C. Bell wrote: If anybody has any suggestions on how to rebuild RAID sets (or pointers to a good HOWTO), that would be very much appreciated. I've never used Sarge so I don't know what md tools exist in that environment. To rebuild a raid using mdadm, it's as simple as

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system

Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Miles Fidelman > wrote: Allan Wind wrote: Did you replace or otherwise eliminate the failed hardware? It was not clear but that should be your first step, otherwis

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system - update

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Miles Fidelman < mfidel...@traversetechnologies.com> wrote: > Update: > > Well, back on the air, sort of. Thanks for the pointers to tools - > systemrescuecd was very helpful. > That's great to hear! > What was really helpful was realizing that not only did I h

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Miles Fidelman < mfidel...@traversetechnologies.com> wrote: > Allan Wind wrote: > >> >> Did you replace or otherwise eliminate the failed hardware? It was not >> clear but that should be your first step, otherwise you are on shaking >> ground. >> >> > Yup - swapped

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system

On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:21:27 -0400, Miles Fidelman posted: > Here it is, Friday, and my birthday to boot, with one fire on my desk > already, when I discover that a critical server has crashed > > The server is running Sarge (I know, I was just about to upgrade, but if > it ain't broke, why f

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system - update

Update: Well, back on the air, sort of. Thanks for the pointers to tools - systemrescuecd was very helpful. What was really helpful was realizing that not only did I have a hardware problem with my server's motherboard, but one (of 4) drives was so badly corrupted that when I stuck it in by

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system

thveillon.debian wrote: since your configuration is based on Grub "legacy", "Super Grub Disk" should enable you to restore the grub configuration. http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Then SysrescueCD comes with all fanciness regarding system recuperation, including of course raid and lvm tools. You c

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system

Allan Wind wrote: On 2009-04-03T15:21:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: Here it is, Friday, and my birthday to boot, with one fire on my desk already, when I discover that a critical server has crashed Happy birthday :-) Thanks! So any suggestions would be very much appreciated a

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system

On 2009-04-03T15:21:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Here it is, Friday, and my birthday to boot, with one fire on my desk > already, when I discover that a critical server has crashed Happy birthday :-) > So any suggestions would be very much appreciated as to: Did you replace or otherwise

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system

Miles Fidelman a écrit : > Hi Folks, > > Here it is, Friday, and my birthday to boot, with one fire on my desk > already, when I discover that a critical server has crashed > > The server is running Sarge (I know, I was just about to upgrade, but if > it ain't broke, why fix it), that just cr

HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system

Hi Folks, Here it is, Friday, and my birthday to boot, with one fire on my desk already, when I discover that a critical server has crashed The server is running Sarge (I know, I was just about to upgrade, but if it ain't broke, why fix it), that just crashed this morning, and I'm having