[CoLoCo] RAID killed my box - aaaagh!

TC telecon at infosyndicate.net
Thu Mar 6 02:35:16 GMT 2008


Jim Hutchinson wrote:

> 
> 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.

Make sure the root= line in grub points to the md0 rather than sda


> 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.


If you were in single while you did, you are probably OK.




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