[plug] SATA drives on another system

[Jon L. Miller]

Daniel,
These drives are only being accessed to try to exact some data from them
after that they are destroyed. I'm a little hesitate in doing any kind of
rebuild for the fear of altering the data on a particular area.
But I will be careful.  What I was hoping is that I could use the
distribution rescue to bring the system up and copy the data off.
Obliviously it's a lot more complicated than that.  Thanks for the heads
up, I will have a read and if I have a question I'll post.

Regards,


Jon


On Fri, January 30, 2009 07:58, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> "Jon L. Miller" <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au> writes:
>
> [... top-posting.  How painfully difficult to read ...]
>
>> Andrew,
>> I'm using Debian Sarge.
>
> Then the process is the same: boot from a distribution rescue disk and
> either use the repair process offered, or chroot into your environment
> and rebuild the initrd image using the distribution tools.
>
> Use the mkinitrd tool to do the later; read the documentation to make
> sure you know what you need to do since it isn't very smart and requires
> manual configuration to work.
>
>
> Um, and you will probably find your life becomes a lot more pleasant if
> you move to etch or etch-and-a-half, which feature the ability to
> identify partitions by UUID or LABEL, as well as a much smarter
> initramfs based boot system.
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel
>
> Remaining content left unedited because, hey, that is traditional when
> you write paper interoffice memos ^W^W^W top-posted content.
>
>> On Thu, January 29, 2009 14:34, Andrew Howell wrote:
>>> I'd say your initrd image doesn't have the correct SATA driver now.
>>> Are you using Fedora or RHEL?
>>>
>>> I think you need to boot off a fedora/redhat rescue cd and then chroot
>>> to
>>> your root partition and run mkinitrd to make a new initrd.
>>> You probably need to edit /etc/modprobe.conf and change the
>>> scsi-controller
>>> alias to use the correct sata driver.
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> 2009/1/29 Jon L. Miller <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>
>>>
>>>> I've had to put a pair of SATA drives on another system (motherboard
>>>> failure) and now I get the following on booting up:
>>>> /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_sis.o
>>>> Journalled Block Device driver load
>>>> pivot_root: No such file or directory
>>>> sbin/init: 432 Cannot open dev/console: no such file
>>>> Kernel pani: attempted to kill init
>>>>
>>>> >From there it stops, if I go into Grub when it's booting (pressing
>>>> "e")
>>>> I
>>>> issue the commands:
>>>> Kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/sda1 ro
>>>> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
>>>> savedefault
>>>> boot
>>>>
>>>> The savedefault command fails with an invalid command.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know how I can get this server back up and running? It's only
>>>> for
>>>> a
>>>> short time period?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Jon L. Miller MCNE CNE CCNA
>>>> East Perth, WA 6004
>>>> WA, Australia
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>>>
>>>
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>> Jon L. Miller MCNE CNE CCNA
>> East Perth, WA 6004
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Jon L. Miller MCNE CNE CCNA
East Perth, WA 6004
WA, Australia
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