[plug] Raid rescue

[Adam Hewitt]

On 07/01/2004, at 1:01 PM, Adam Hewitt wrote:

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> I mean I booted off the CD and used the individual disks as the root 
> partitions. However I realised after I sent that email that I am not 
> getting kernel panics when I try that but I am getting into 
> maintenance mode with /dev/md0 mounted read only. I remounted it 
> read/write and I was able to edit some files and re-run lilo and I am 
> still getting the same problems.
>
> So now that I have access to the file system, does anyone have an idea 
> of how to fix the lilo boot problem or what the problem could be? and 
> yes I know that installing grub could help but I would rather learn 
> about the benefits of grub at a later date ; )
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While Im at it, is there a way to change a partition type from RAID 
auto to ext3 without losing data?

Adam.