First, please don't top post. please intersperse your responses with the appropriate parts like I do. Also, please don't reply to me directly or include me in the reply. I read the list, so just reply to that. I'll see your response. On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 07:46:58PM -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: > okay...i think i figured out my issue. > it is with raid. why do you think this? What evidence tells you this? have you looked at /proc/mdstat? > i think i will need a way to check if raid devices are okay. cat /proc/mdstat should tell you. > the system boots but it complains about md1 which is my root system. okay. so it does boot? YOu are providing conflicting information. > i think md0 where my /boot ...everythign is okay there.. > it looks like i lost 1 of my drives on md1 which is a raid5 > device..but i still not able to boot. can you boot or not? please answer my questions about older kernels and editing the grub initrd line. A > > mjh > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:36:18PM -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: > >> i appriciate your help. > >> i am not new to linux but i am new to lvm and raid and recovery. > >> if you give me some simple steps, i can follow. > >> i would really like the help because my main ssystem is down. > >> please provide step by step proceedure..to ensure that i get my system > >> up and running. > >> can you point me to a how-to or something ?? > > > > sorry, I totally cut myself off in the last mail... > > > > as I was saying, within grub, you can edit the boot commands. There > > *should* be some backup initrd's you could try. From the grub menu > > type 'e' for edit, then (doing this from memory) arrow down to the > > initrd line and type 'e' to edit the line. Next, move to the end of > > the line and delete your way back to the point where it says > > > > initrd /initrd.img > > > > and press tab a couple of times to get a tab-completion list of > > available initrd's. review the list and find the one foro your > > kernel. it should be initd.img-2.6.24-something... there should be one > > with a .bak extension... that's the one to try and see if it will > > boot. > > > > please report back on the results > > > > A > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFImOQraIeIEqwil4YRAkUhAKCDJxxpj6bgFXHgPHMWwmeF/EQwQQCfb0wx > > VqQ3VkyMRQeam2XiYCpuPO0= > > =66jF > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > --
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