[kwlug-disc] Recovering a software raided machine.

[Joe Wennechuk]

Thank you for this. I got knoppix to boot up, and I am dd'ing the drive right now before I try any repair steps. I dd'd only the partition /dev/sdb1,  it is the only partition on the drive. I was wondering does anyone know should I have dd'd  /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1 ?? What is the difference?

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> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:17:45 -0400
> From: unsolicited at swiz.ca
> To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Recovering a software raided machine.
>
> Boot favourite distro, chroot into your disks (once you get them mounted
> with the live cd). Do what you gotta do to follow the below.
>
> Been here, done this!
> (Remembered to put it in tiddlywiki, even.)
>
> mkdir /mnt/chroot
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/chroot
> for i in dev sys proc; do mount -o bind /$i /mnt/chroot/$i; done
> chroot /mnt/chroot
>
> update-grub
> <eeyyy>
>
>
> eeyyy - etc., etc., yada, yada, yada
>
>
> On 14-03-11 01:22 PM, William Park wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:36:57AM -0400, Joe Wennechuk wrote:
>>> I have a machine that will not boot. I'm getting a message to insert
>>> boot media after post, and that's it.
>>
>> This usually means that BIOS can't find boot loader. So, boot in rescue
>> mode or from different boot partition, and reinstall boot loader (grub,
>> lilo).
>>
>>> It has two drives in it, and I
>>> believe they were set up as a mirror using mdadm. Can I just take one
>>> or both of the drives out, and plug it in via USB converter? Is there
>>> anything I will have to do besides that?
>>
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