Re: F9 RAID1 server sda failure - /boot is empty

2019-02-27 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 2/27/19 10:27 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: You have your root partition running, so you can check how /boot was mounted in /etc/fstab: were you really using the md or just pointing to sdaX? I do have /dev/md/root mounted on /mnt/sysimage and I have looked in there. /etc/mdadm.conf matches exa

Re: F9 RAID1 server sda failure - /boot is empty

2019-02-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 27 February 2019 21:11:12 Roberto Ragusa wrote: > On 2/27/19 8:39 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 February 2019 19:33:03 Gary Stainburn wrote: > >> This is a Fedora 19 box, not a Fedora 9 box, sorry everyone > > > > I have had a look at /boot and it is completely empty. A

Re: F9 RAID1 server sda failure - /boot is empty

2019-02-27 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 2/27/19 8:39 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2019 19:33:03 Gary Stainburn wrote: This is a Fedora 19 box, not a Fedora 9 box, sorry everyone I have had a look at /boot and it is completely empty. Am I right in thinking I'm stuffed? Why is it empty? Wasn't that also a R

Re: F9 RAID1 server sda failure - /boot is empty

2019-02-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 27 February 2019 19:33:03 Gary Stainburn wrote: > > This is a Fedora 19 box, not a Fedora 9 box, sorry everyone I have had a look at /boot and it is completely empty. Am I right in thinking I'm stuffed? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists

Re: F9 RAID1 server sda failure

2019-02-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 27 February 2019 19:15:22 Gary Stainburn wrote: > I've now cloned the good drive, and the copy has been put safe. I'm now > trying to get it bootable with just this one drive. I've booted using a > Fedora 16 DVD in rescue mode, and using the instructions on > > https://www.thegeekdia

Re: F9 RAID1 server sda failure

2019-02-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 27 February 2019 14:43:30 Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks > > I've got an old F9 server which has been running forever without any > problems has just failed to reboot. > > I have 2 x RAID1 setup > > sda and sdb are the first raid device > sdc and add are the second device. > > Also,

Re: F9 RAID1 server sda failure

2019-02-27 Thread Berend De Schouwer
On Wed, 2019-02-27 at 14:43 +, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks > > I've got an old F9 server which has been running forever without any > problems > has just failed to reboot. > > I have 2 x RAID1 setup > > sda and sdb are the first raid device > sdc and add are the second device. > > Als

Re: F9 RAID1 server sda failure

2019-02-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2019-02-27 at 15:23 +, Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Wednesday 27 February 2019 15:14:33 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Given that it's RAID1 (i.e. mirroring) can't you just use dd to copy > > all of sdb to sda? > > > > poc > > I am already doing that, but using clonezilla instead of DD.

Re: F9 RAID1 server sda failure

2019-02-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 27 February 2019 15:14:33 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Given that it's RAID1 (i.e. mirroring) can't you just use dd to copy > all of sdb to sda? > > poc I am already doing that, but using clonezilla instead of DD. I should end up with the same result. However, I did that so I had

Re: F9 RAID1 server sda failure

2019-02-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2019-02-27 at 14:43 +, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks > > I've got an old F9 server which has been running forever without any problems > has just failed to reboot. > > I have 2 x RAID1 setup > > sda and sdb are the first raid device > sdc and add are the second device. > > Also,

F9 RAID1 server sda failure

2019-02-27 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks I've got an old F9 server which has been running forever without any problems has just failed to reboot. I have 2 x RAID1 setup sda and sdb are the first raid device sdc and add are the second device. Also, to make life even more fun I only have 4 SATA ports so I have to remove one H