So from what I have read I would run grub-install /dev/sda ?

I have setup the raid with /boot (100Meg) /swap (2gig) / (the rest)

All 3 are mirrored.

I don't want to mess this up sorry I am new to this.

Mace

Scott Silva wrote:

Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 10:58 AM:

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Hi,

I have a setup with raid 1 and one drive has failed, and the other drive won't boot says missing os.

I thought I had it setup and tested but it would appear that it wasn't setup to boot form either drive.

How can I boot from the good drive that is missing the grub.

I am thinking of using linux rescue when booting from the centos 4.2 disc

This is a production machine and I don't want to mess it up.

Please help

Use linux rescue and you can fix grub. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Invoking-grub-install.html

Scott Silva wrote:

Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:13 PM:

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So from what I have read I would run grub-install /dev/sda ?

I have setup the raid with /boot (100Meg) /swap (2gig) / (the rest)

All 3 are mirrored.

I don't want to mess this up sorry I am new to this.

Mace

Scott Silva wrote:

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Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 10:58 AM:

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Hi,

I have a setup with raid 1 and one drive has failed, and the other drive won't boot says missing os.

I thought I had it setup and tested but it would appear that it wasn't setup to boot form either drive.

How can I boot from the good drive that is missing the grub.

I am thinking of using linux rescue when booting from the centos 4.2 disc

This is a production machine and I don't want to mess it up.

Please help

Use linux rescue and you can fix grub. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Invoking-grub-install.html

less /boot/grub/grub.conf and post please-- just to be careful.

Okay I have booted with linux rescue and skiped the network setup, and skiped the next part and gone right to the shell.

If I type grub-install it says no such file or directory.

I tried less /boot/grub/grub.conf same thing.

I did boot with the centos cd as if I was installing and used manual partion to see if the partions where still there and they are.

No sure what to do now. I will try and search for grub-install. I am assuming that I am searching the cd?

Mace

Scott Silva wrote:

Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:29 PM:

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Scott Silva wrote:

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Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:13 PM:

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So from what I have read I would run grub-install /dev/sda ?

I have setup the raid with /boot (100Meg) /swap (2gig) / (the rest)

All 3 are mirrored.

I don't want to mess this up sorry I am new to this.

Mace

Scott Silva wrote:

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Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 10:58 AM:

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Hi,

I have a setup with raid 1 and one drive has failed, and the other drive won't boot says missing os.

I thought I had it setup and tested but it would appear that it wasn't setup to boot form either drive.

How can I boot from the good drive that is missing the grub.

I am thinking of using linux rescue when booting from the centos 4.2 disc

This is a production machine and I don't want to mess it up.

Please help

Use linux rescue and you can fix grub. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Invoking-grub-install.html

less /boot/grub/grub.conf and post please-- just to be careful.

Okay I have booted with linux rescue and skiped the network setup, and skiped the next part and gone right to the shell.

If I type grub-install it says no such file or directory.

I tried less /boot/grub/grub.conf same thing.

I did boot with the centos cd as if I was installing and used manual partion to see if the partions where still there and they are.

No sure what to do now. I will try and search for grub-install. I am assuming that I am searching the cd?

Mace

You can't skip the part about mounting your existing system. You will need to do that, and after it mounts, run chroot /mnt/sysconfig. That should make all the commands run on YOUR files instead of the bootdisks running system.

Okay I didn't skip this time and it did a search and says "You don't have any Linux partitions. Press return to get a shell. The system will reboot automatically when you exit from the shell."

What the?

If I goto the shell and run fsdisk /dev/sda it shows I have 3 partitions with /boot set for booting.

I do get that?

Scott Silva wrote:

Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:55 PM:

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Scott Silva wrote:

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Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:29 PM:

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Scott Silva wrote:

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Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:13 PM:

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So from what I have read I would run grub-install /dev/sda ?

I have setup the raid with /boot (100Meg) /swap (2gig) / (the rest)

All 3 are mirrored.

I don't want to mess this up sorry I am new to this.

Mace

Scott Silva wrote:

> Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 10:58 AM: > > > >> Hi, >> >> I have a setup with raid 1 and one drive has failed, and the other >> drive >> won't boot says missing os. >> >> I thought I had it setup and tested but it would appear that it >> wasn't >> setup to boot form either drive. >> >> How can I boot from the good drive that is missing the grub. >> >> I am thinking of using linux rescue when booting from the centos 4.2 >> disc >> >> This is a production machine and I don't want to mess it up. >> >> Please help >> >> > Use linux rescue and you can fix grub. > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Invoking-grub-install.html > > > > > > > >

less /boot/grub/grub.conf and post please-- just to be careful.

Okay I have booted with linux rescue and skiped the network setup, and skiped the next part and gone right to the shell.

If I type grub-install it says no such file or directory.

I tried less /boot/grub/grub.conf same thing.

I did boot with the centos cd as if I was installing and used manual partion to see if the partions where still there and they are.

No sure what to do now. I will try and search for grub-install. I am assuming that I am searching the cd?

Mace

You can't skip the part about mounting your existing system. You will need to do that, and after it mounts, run chroot /mnt/sysconfig. That should make all the commands run on YOUR files instead of the bootdisks running system.

Okay I didn't skip this time and it did a search and says "You don't have any Linux partitions. Press return to get a shell. The system will reboot automatically when you exit from the shell."

What the?

If I goto the shell and run fsdisk /dev/sda it shows I have 3 partitions with /boot set for booting.

I do get that?

If you show a /boot partition you don't have software raid. The partitions in software raid are type fd (linux raid). Does the replaced drive show up?

With a scsi drive, the lowest number addressed drive in the chain will be sda. So if you had an sda set as device id 0, and an sdb set as device id 1, and removed the sda drive, what was sdb would now show up as sda. Scsi doesn't have fixed addresses like ide. If you had proper software raid, your partitons would be all of typd fd, and you should have a matching set on each drive ( sda1 and sdb1 would both be type fd and the same size ,etc...).

Okay to clarify

I have only hooked up the drive that is not bootable. The drive that is bootable has been disconnected.

If I run sfdisk on the nonbootable drive I get /dev/sda1 (id fd linux raid autodetect) marked * for boot /dev/sda2 " " /dev/sda3 " "

So yes it is software raid am I right. The system has been running off this drive for almost a month, until someone rebooted the server.

Should I have both drives installed when I run the linux rescue? I know the one drive will boot now that I fixed it but the info on it is amost a month old. I really need the info from the drive that is not bootable. Last time I tried to boot with both drives installed it didn't it gave a no boot partition error.

Does linux automatically rebuild the raid when it boot? If I do get them to boot with the good drive I don't want it to over write the current drive.

Thanks you have been alot of help so far.

Scott Silva wrote:

Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 1:27 PM:

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Scott Silva wrote:

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Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:55 PM:

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Scott Silva wrote:

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Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:29 PM:

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Scott Silva wrote:

> Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:13 PM: > > > >> So from what I have read I would run grub-install /dev/sda ? >> >> I have setup the raid with >> /boot (100Meg) >> /swap (2gig) >> / (the rest) >> >> All 3 are mirrored. >> >> I don't want to mess this up sorry I am new to this. >> >> Mace >> >> Scott Silva wrote: >> >> >>> Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 10:58 AM: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have a setup with raid 1 and one drive has failed, and the other >>>> drive >>>> won't boot says missing os. >>>> >>>> I thought I had it setup and tested but it would appear that it >>>> wasn't >>>> setup to boot form either drive. >>>> >>>> How can I boot from the good drive that is missing the grub. >>>> >>>> I am thinking of using linux rescue when booting from the >>>> centos 4.2 >>>> disc >>>> >>>> This is a production machine and I don't want to mess it up. >>>> >>>> Please help >>>> >>>> >>> Use linux rescue and you can fix grub. >>> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Invoking-grub-install.html >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > less /boot/grub/grub.conf and post please-- just to be careful. > > Okay I have booted with linux rescue and skiped the network setup, > and > skiped the next part and gone right to the shell. > > If I type grub-install it says no such file or directory.

I tried less /boot/grub/grub.conf same thing.

I did boot with the centos cd as if I was installing and used manual partion to see if the partions where still there and they are.

No sure what to do now. I will try and search for grub-install. I am assuming that I am searching the cd?

Mace

You can't skip the part about mounting your existing system. You will need to do that, and after it mounts, run chroot /mnt/sysconfig. That should make all the commands run on YOUR files instead of the bootdisks running system.

Okay I didn't skip this time and it did a search and says "You don't have any Linux partitions. Press return to get a shell. The system will reboot automatically when you exit from the shell."

What the?

If I goto the shell and run fsdisk /dev/sda it shows I have 3 partitions with /boot set for booting.

I do get that?

If you show a /boot partition you don't have software raid. The partitions in software raid are type fd (linux raid). Does the replaced drive show up?

With a scsi drive, the lowest number addressed drive in the chain will be sda. So if you had an sda set as device id 0, and an sdb set as device id 1, and removed the sda drive, what was sdb would now show up as sda. Scsi doesn't have fixed addresses like ide. If you had proper software raid, your partitons would be all of typd fd, and you should have a matching set on each drive ( sda1 and sdb1 would both be type fd and the same size ,etc...).

Okay to clarify

I have only hooked up the drive that is not bootable. The drive that is bootable has been disconnected.

If I run sfdisk on the nonbootable drive I get /dev/sda1 (id fd linux raid autodetect) marked * for boot /dev/sda2 " " /dev/sda3 " "

So yes it is software raid am I right. The system has been running off this drive for almost a month, until someone rebooted the server.

Should I have both drives installed when I run the linux rescue? I know the one drive will boot now that I fixed it but the info on it is amost a month old. I really need the info from the drive that is not bootable. Last time I tried to boot with both drives installed it didn't it gave a no boot partition error.

Does linux automatically rebuild the raid when it boot? If I do get them to boot with the good drive I don't want it to over write the current drive.

Thanks you have been alot of help so far.

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Then the other drives partition table has been changed. You will need to have both drives in to repair the system. If you just want to get booting, you can swap the drives scsi id's so the good drive is the lower numbered drive. Then you can use the rescue disk to get the system running. After you boot with both drives in with the rescue cd, try the option to look for linux systems. Make sure that you see both drives, and lets see the partition info from both, again just to be safe. I don't want to give you some commands that will cause damage.

As it is if I hook up both drives and not change the scsi ids it won't boot. It won't even boot from cd either. Says missing partition boot sector.

Mace

Can I email you directly to cut down on posts to the mailing list?

I have changed the SCSI ids on the two hard drives and now it will boot from the damaged drive. Still won't boot from the cd which is an ide cdrom and it is set to boot from cd first.

Should I allow it to boot from the old drive with the current good drive hooked up as well? I am worried that it will rebuild the old info over the new.

Thanks

Scott Silva wrote:

Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 1:51 PM:

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Scott Silva wrote:

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Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 1:27 PM:

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Scott Silva wrote:

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Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:55 PM:

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Scott Silva wrote:

> Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:29 PM: > > > >> Scott Silva wrote: >> >> >>> Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:13 PM: >>> >>> >>> >>>> So from what I have read I would run grub-install /dev/sda ? >>>> >>>> I have setup the raid with >>>> /boot (100Meg) >>>> /swap (2gig) >>>> / (the rest) >>>> >>>> All 3 are mirrored. >>>> >>>> I don't want to mess this up sorry I am new to this. >>>> >>>> Mace >>>> >>>> Scott Silva wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 10:58 AM: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I have a setup with raid 1 and one drive has failed, and the >>>>>> other >>>>>> drive >>>>>> won't boot says missing os. >>>>>> >>>>>> I thought I had it setup and tested but it would appear that it >>>>>> wasn't >>>>>> setup to boot form either drive. >>>>>> >>>>>> How can I boot from the good drive that is missing the grub. >>>>>> >>>>>> I am thinking of using linux rescue when booting from the >>>>>> centos 4.2 >>>>>> disc >>>>>> >>>>>> This is a production machine and I don't want to mess it up. >>>>>> >>>>>> Please help >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Use linux rescue and you can fix grub. >>>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Invoking-grub-install.html >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> less /boot/grub/grub.conf and post please-- just to be careful. >>> >>> Okay I have booted with linux rescue and skiped the network setup, >>> and >>> skiped the next part and gone right to the shell. >>> >>> >> If I type grub-install it says no such file or directory. >> >> I tried less /boot/grub/grub.conf same thing. >> >> I did boot with the centos cd as if I was installing and used manual >> partion to see if the partions where still there and they are. >> >> No sure what to do now. I will try and search for grub-install. >> I am >> assuming that I am searching the cd? >> >> Mace >> >> > You can't skip the part about mounting your existing system. You will > need to > do that, and after it mounts, run chroot /mnt/sysconfig. > That should make all the commands run on YOUR files instead of the > bootdisks > running system. > > > Okay I didn't skip this time and it did a search and says "You don't have any Linux partitions. Press return to get a shell. The system will reboot automatically when you exit from the shell."

What the?

If I goto the shell and run fsdisk /dev/sda it shows I have 3 partitions with /boot set for booting.

I do get that?

If you show a /boot partition you don't have software raid. The partitions in software raid are type fd (linux raid). Does the replaced drive show up?

With a scsi drive, the lowest number addressed drive in the chain will be sda. So if you had an sda set as device id 0, and an sdb set as device id 1, and removed the sda drive, what was sdb would now show up as sda. Scsi doesn't have fixed addresses like ide. If you had proper software raid, your partitons would be all of typd fd, and you should have a matching set on each drive ( sda1 and sdb1 would both be type fd and the same size ,etc...).

Okay to clarify

I have only hooked up the drive that is not bootable. The drive that is bootable has been disconnected.

If I run sfdisk on the nonbootable drive I get /dev/sda1 (id fd linux raid autodetect) marked * for boot /dev/sda2 " " /dev/sda3 " "

So yes it is software raid am I right. The system has been running off this drive for almost a month, until someone rebooted the server.

Should I have both drives installed when I run the linux rescue? I know the one drive will boot now that I fixed it but the info on it is amost a month old. I really need the info from the drive that is not bootable. Last time I tried to boot with both drives installed it didn't it gave a no boot partition error.

Does linux automatically rebuild the raid when it boot? If I do get them to boot with the good drive I don't want it to over write the current drive.

Thanks you have been alot of help so far.

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Then the other drives partition table has been changed. You will need to have both drives in to repair the system. If you just want to get booting, you can swap the drives scsi id's so the good drive is the lower numbered drive. Then you can use the rescue disk to get the system running. After you boot with both drives in with the rescue cd, try the option to look for linux systems. Make sure that you see both drives, and lets see the partition info from both, again just to be safe. I don't want to give you some commands that will cause damage.

As it is if I hook up both drives and not change the scsi ids it won't boot. It won't even boot from cd either. Says missing partition boot sector.

Mace

You will have to make sure that both drives and the cdrom if it is scsi have different id's. To boot from cd with the drives in might need you to go into the bios option and change the boot order. The system must let you boot from cd with both drives in, or you wouldn't have been able to install it in the first place.

To fix this, you will have to get both drives in and be able to boot from the rescue disk.

Thanks for your help, I am sure your busy doing other things as well.

As I stated in previous postings I have changed the scsi ids and now with the two drives attached it will boot from the old drive (I am assuming it is the old drive because the other drive would'nt boot on its own.

If I do boot to centos now will it rebuild the mirror from the booting drive to the other drive?

I am worried about haveing the current info over written by the old info.

At this point I will settle for just getting the one drive that has the current info booting and working. I need to get this back into production 45min away at a police station. :( its their email server.

Thanks for any help

Mace Eliason wrote:

Can I email you directly to cut down on posts to the mailing list?

I have changed the SCSI ids on the two hard drives and now it will boot from the damaged drive. Still won't boot from the cd which is an ide cdrom and it is set to boot from cd first. Should I allow it to boot from the old drive with the current good drive hooked up as well? I am worried that it will rebuild the old info over the new.

Thanks

Scott Silva wrote:

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Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 1:51 PM:

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Scott Silva wrote:

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Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 1:27 PM:

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Scott Silva wrote:

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Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:55 PM:

> Scott Silva wrote: > >> Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:29 PM: >> >> >>> Scott Silva wrote: >>> >>>> Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 12:13 PM: >>>> >>>> >>>>> So from what I have read I would run grub-install /dev/sda ? >>>>> >>>>> I have setup the raid with >>>>> /boot (100Meg) >>>>> /swap (2gig) >>>>> / (the rest) >>>>> >>>>> All 3 are mirrored. >>>>> >>>>> I don't want to mess this up sorry I am new to this. >>>>> >>>>> Mace >>>>> >>>>> Scott Silva wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Mace Eliason spake the following on 5/1/2006 10:58 AM: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have a setup with raid 1 and one drive has failed, and the >>>>>>> other >>>>>>> drive >>>>>>> won't boot says missing os. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I thought I had it setup and tested but it would appear >>>>>>> that it >>>>>>> wasn't >>>>>>> setup to boot form either drive. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> How can I boot from the good drive that is missing the grub. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I am thinking of using linux rescue when booting from the >>>>>>> centos 4.2 >>>>>>> disc >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This is a production machine and I don't want to mess it up. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Please help >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> Use linux rescue and you can fix grub. >>>>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Invoking-grub-install.html >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> less /boot/grub/grub.conf and post please-- just to be careful. >>>> >>>> Okay I have booted with linux rescue and skiped the network >>>> setup, >>>> and >>>> skiped the next part and gone right to the shell. >>>> >>> If I type grub-install it says no such file or directory. >>> >>> I tried less /boot/grub/grub.conf same thing. >>> >>> I did boot with the centos cd as if I was installing and used >>> manual >>> partion to see if the partions where still there and they are. >>> >>> No sure what to do now. I will try and search for grub-install. >>> I am >>> assuming that I am searching the cd? >>> >>> Mace >>> >> You can't skip the part about mounting your existing system. >> You will >> need to >> do that, and after it mounts, run chroot /mnt/sysconfig. >> That should make all the commands run on YOUR files instead of the >> bootdisks >> running system. >> >> > Okay I didn't skip this time and it did a search and says "You > don't > have any Linux partitions. Press return to get a shell. The system > will > reboot automatically when you exit from the shell." > > What the? > > If I goto the shell and run fsdisk /dev/sda it shows I have 3 > partitions > with /boot set for booting. > > I do get that? > If you show a /boot partition you don't have software raid. The partitions in software raid are type fd (linux raid). Does the replaced drive show up?

With a scsi drive, the lowest number addressed drive in the chain will be sda. So if you had an sda set as device id 0, and an sdb set as device id 1, and removed the sda drive, what was sdb would now show up as sda. Scsi doesn't have fixed addresses like ide. If you had proper software raid, your partitons would be all of typd fd, and you should have a matching set on each drive ( sda1 and sdb1 would both be type fd and the same size ,etc...).

Okay to clarify

I have only hooked up the drive that is not bootable. The drive that is bootable has been disconnected.

If I run sfdisk on the nonbootable drive I get /dev/sda1 (id fd linux raid autodetect) marked * for boot /dev/sda2 " " /dev/sda3 " "

So yes it is software raid am I right. The system has been running off this drive for almost a month, until someone rebooted the server.

Should I have both drives installed when I run the linux rescue? I know the one drive will boot now that I fixed it but the info on it is amost a month old. I really need the info from the drive that is not bootable. Last time I tried to boot with both drives installed it didn't it gave a no boot partition error.

Does linux automatically rebuild the raid when it boot? If I do get them to boot with the good drive I don't want it to over write the current drive.

Thanks you have been alot of help so far.

...

Then the other drives partition table has been changed. You will need to have both drives in to repair the system. If you just want to get booting, you can swap the drives scsi id's so the good drive is the lower numbered drive. Then you can use the rescue disk to get the system running. After you boot with both drives in with the rescue cd, try the option to look for linux systems. Make sure that you see both drives, and lets see the partition info from both, again just to be safe. I don't want to give you some commands that will cause damage.

As it is if I hook up both drives and not change the scsi ids it won't boot. It won't even boot from cd either. Says missing partition boot sector.

Mace

You will have to make sure that both drives and the cdrom if it is scsi have different id's. To boot from cd with the drives in might need you to go into the bios option and change the boot order. The system must let you boot from cd with both drives in, or you wouldn't have been able to install it in the first place.

To fix this, you will have to get both drives in and be able to boot from the rescue disk.

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I tried this and it seemed to work but it still won't boot just gives error about missing partiton still

Les Mikesell wrote:

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 15:27, Mace Eliason wrote:

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Okay to clarify

I have only hooked up the drive that is not bootable. The drive that is bootable has been disconnected.

If I run sfdisk on the nonbootable drive I get /dev/sda1 (id fd linux raid autodetect) marked * for boot /dev/sda2 " " /dev/sda3 " "

So yes it is software raid am I right. The system has been running off this drive for almost a month, until someone rebooted the server.

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Should I have both drives installed when I run the linux rescue?

It should autodetect the md devices with one missing. However if it doesn't find the partitions in the automatic scan you can try it the hard way:

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From the command line in rescue mode:

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/sysinstall mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysinstall/boot Assuming those succeed: chroot /mnt/sysinstall Look around a bit to make sure you have the right thing mounted, then proceed with the instructions for installing grub. If that doesn't work either, try: grub <enter> device (hd0) /dev/sda root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit

then 'exit' twice to reboot and remove the rescue cd.

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Does linux automatically rebuild the raid when it boot? If I do get them to boot with the good drive I don't want it to over write the current drive.

I'm not sure about the details but I think there is a counter on each disk with the number of times the RAID has been stopped cleanly. If it does auto-sync, the one with the higher counter will be the master. If you can get grub installed and reboot a few times with the disk you want to stay current it should become the master when they are both seen - although I generally don't trust this and do a scsi low-level when I have a chance when swapping in a new drive, then make the new matching partitions and add to the raid after booting.

Well it was part of the original raid 1 array. It has been running for a month on its own when the other drive failed. But it is missing the grub bootloader. So it won't boot.

Les Mikesell wrote:

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:18, Mace Eliason wrote:

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I tried this and it seemed to work but it still won't boot just gives error about missing partiton still

Do you have some reason to think that your bios is set to boot from that drive?

I think I did using grub at the command prompt to copy from one drive to the other but I am not sure because if the raid array is out of sync maybe it didn't work.

Les Mikesell wrote:

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:38, Mace Eliason wrote:

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Well it was part of the original raid 1 array. It has been running for a month on its own when the other drive failed. But it is missing the grub bootloader. So it won't boot.

I thought you said you installed grub on it. If it still says it can't find a boot sector then bios isn't booting from the same drive where you installed grub.