[CoLoCo] RAID killed my box - aaaagh!

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:53 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>
wrote:

> > Okay, I left it "booting" a bit longer and it finally resumed, tries to
> > mount /root/dev, /root/sys, /root/proc and fails on each and then says
> > "target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init" and dumps to busybox and
> > (initramfs).
>
> 1) You ~do~ have a backup, right?
> 2) Someone smarter than me suggested that you boot to the Ubuntu CD and
> see what that
> gets you.  Have you tried that yet?
> 3) You might also try KNOPPIX.  It has a more extensive tool-set than the
> Ubuntu CD.
>
>
> 1. yes, i have backups but there isn't anything wrong with the data. I can
boot a live CD and see it just fine.
2. did that but i don't know what to do while there to fix this problem.
3. I don't have knoppix but I doubt i need it. I'm betting there is a simple
command to edit a config file somewhere. Something must have gotten changed
while mucking around.

When I did the mdadm --add the first time i pointed to the wrong partition.
I used mdadm --remove to remove it and then added the right one. I bet that
did more than I thought. At least that's my guess.

-jim
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