Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-14 Thread Daniel Baumann
John Goerzen wrote: > I'm a bit surprised they wouldn't include mdadm for the -desktop images, because the desktop tasks do not include it (and it's already too big anyway). for the rescue image flavour, it's included. however, the point is to build your own anyway.. we can't prebuild images for

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-13 Thread John Goerzen
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:25:48PM -0700, Ken Teague wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Software RAID is be automatically detected from the boot sector, hence > > should be visible from a LiveCD. > > > Debian Live didn't have mdadm. Debian Lenny netinstall found the md's, > but didn't have fsc

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-13 Thread Ken Teague
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: apt-get install what ever package you need It is only installed on a ramdisk (the one that is union-mounted on top of the compressed file system of the CD), but that doesn't really matter for a one-time shot. As long as you have internet connection there Got that far with De

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:25:48PM -0700, Ken Teague wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Software RAID is be automatically detected from the boot sector, hence > > should be visible from a LiveCD. > > > Debian Live didn't have mdadm. Debian Lenny netinstall found the md's, > but didn't have fsc

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-12 Thread Ken Teague
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Software RAID is be automatically detected from the boot sector, hence > should be visible from a LiveCD. Debian Live didn't have mdadm. Debian Lenny netinstall found the md's, but didn't have fsck.reiserfs. I'm in the process of burning SystemRescueCD (http://www.sysr

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 12 septembre 2008 à 16:38 -0700, Ken Teague a écrit : > Peter Samuelson wrote: > > The question I'd have is, how did you manage to create the filesystem in > > the first place? > > I didn't install the OS. It came from Microway like that. Well, d-i wouldn’t have done that, for examp

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
> > I would boot a CD that includes recovery tools. I'm not sure whether > > Debian Live includes reiserfsprogs, but that's one place to start > > looking. [Ken Teague] > That was my first thought, but the device with the corrupt file > system is multidisk. How can a LiveCD know about an md con

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Ken Teague] > 1. Why isn't reiserfsprogs a dependency of the kernel image that has > support for it? Shouldn't all file system tools be dependent if the > kernel being pushed out to the box supports said file system? No, that would require a lot of stuff on most Debian systems that we don't nee

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-12 Thread Ken Teague
Peter Samuelson wrote: > The question I'd have is, how did you manage to create the filesystem in the > first place? I didn't install the OS. It came from Microway like that. > I would boot a CD that includes recovery tools. I'm not sure whether > Debian Live includes reiserfsprogs, but that'

Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-12 Thread Ken Teague
Greetings, Debian Etch AMD64 multi-disk ReiserFS Came in to find /dev/md6 wasn't mounted after rebooting the box. Tried to run fsck on it, but fsck.reiserfs was missing because reiserfsprogs wasn't installed. I can't apt-get or dpkg because those tools reside under /usr. This leads to a few qu