On Fri, 07 Nov 2014, Ron Leach wrote:
> Late on, I found another Lenny CD1 (Lenny 5.0.6) which read fine and,
> with that rescue system, managed to install Grub onto /dev/sdb though,
> on reboot, it only reached a Grub prompt.
Cool; glad you were able to get this to work.
I probably wasn't clear
On 06/11/2014 20:46, Don Armstrong wrote:
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014, Ron Leach wrote:
Tried the grub-install, but it failed complaining (loosely) that the
'image was too large for embedding, but the embedded image was needed
for raid or lvm systems'.
I'd mounted /boot2 to retain compatibility with th
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014, Ron Leach wrote:
> I wanted to skip the part where the new disk was re-synced because
> that's going to take some 8 hours or so
Start it now; you don't have to wait for it to finish.
> On 06/11/2014 16:30, Don Armstrong wrote:
> >2) Start the raid for / in degraded mode from
Don, thank you for a very comprehensive sequence. I wanted to skip
the part where the new disk was re-synced because that's going to take
some 8 hours or so and I rather need to have the basic server up,
albeit in degraded raid1 state, and then let it resync, so that the
(few) users can access
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014, Ron Leach wrote:
> /dev/sdb is partitioned:
> sdb1: /boot2 (this was a simple copy of /boot on /dev/sda1; sda1 and sdb1
> were not raid)
> sdb2: (raid1) /
> sdb3: (raid1) /usr
> sdb4: (raid1) /var
> sdb5: swap
> sdb6: (raid1) /tmp
> sdb7: (raid1) /home
> sdb8: (raid1) /userdata
List, good afternoon,
We had a raid 1 failure on our (one remaining) Lenny system this
morning, /dev/sda failed, and I've replaced it with a new disk, which
is unformatted and unpartitioned at the moment. We're unable to boot
from the second (original) disk in the machine, /dev/sdb. Guessing
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