[plug] Urgent RAID Help needed

[Simon Scott]

On Wednesday 31 July 2002 2:12 pm, Mark Nold wrote:
> 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.

Do you really want to boot?

If it were me Id use tomsrtbt or something similar to rebuild to raid set 
onto the replaced disk and only reboot when I was sure everything was aok

>
> mn