[plug] Urgent RAID Help needed

[Adrian Woodley]

Have a look at James B's "Incase of Emergency Break Glass" on the
http://www.james.rcpt.to/programs/debian/raid1/
You may need to install a new system on a spare drive and use that to recover
the data on the RAID disk.

Regards,
Adrian Woodley
Diskworld Computer & IT
www.Diskworld.com.au

Australian Linux Conference, Perth 2003
http://conf.linux.org.au


Quoting Mark Nold <markn at enspace.com>:

> Hi guys and gals,
> 
> I have a bit of a problem.

> 
> I have two IDE disks RAID (mirroring) and the Primary master has died.
> The secondary master seems OK, but wont boot since there was no bootable
> flag. Everything work AOK until someone rebooted the system as one of the
> disks must have gone down recently.
> 
> If i put the bootable flag on the secondary disk whilst in fdisk from LINUX
> RESCUE mode (from Redhat CD), it still wont boot.
> 
> My question is how can i rescue the data from that disk being only one side
> of a RAID (even though it is mirrored)
> 
> Any help would be hugely appreciated.
> 
> mn
> 
> 
>