Re: Could do with some help - Wheezy, Kernel updated, now cannot boot
On 03/13/2015 12:34 AM, Ron Leach wrote:
Some progress. ...
1. Please read this post:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg01113.html
2. It's been my experience that trying to "find the needle in the
haystack" is an exercise in futility -- even if I do "fix" something and
the machine appears to "work", other problems are sure to follow. I
have accepted the fact that modern computing systems are too complex for
me to fully understand and get all the details right. Therefore, I must
rely upon the expertise of others, and devise approaches to assemble
their work products correctly and repeatably using reliable tools and
methods.
3. It's helpful to invest in a "workbench" machine with a reasonably
recent motherboard and CPU, a goodly amount of RAM, a floppy disk drive,
a CD/DVD/BluRay burner, two each HDD/SSD mobile dock bays for various
drive interfaces and sizes, and various I/O connectors (PS/2, RS-232
serial, parallel, Gigabit, USB, Firewire, eSATA, audio, etc.).
4. It's helpful to invest in large HDD's for backups, images, and
archives. I've used external HDD's in the past, but prefer internal
HDD's in mobile dock drawers for their better performance, cooling, and
physical protection. I have one in the workbench machine, one on-site,
and one off-site. I periodically rsync the workbench disc to the
on-site disc, and then swap the on-site and off-site discs.
At this point, I'd recommend:
1. Archive all of your backups.
2. Individually image the partition tables and boot, swap, root, and
data partitions of every drive in your RAID. Archive the images.
3. Install a new system drive, do a fresh install of your preferred
operating system, take an image of the system drive, archive the image,
get your RAID data partitions working again, install and configure your
e-mail server software to work with the data on RAID, backup your data,
image the system drive, archive the backup and image.
4. Store copies of the archives off-site.
David
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