[kwlug-disc] Recovering a software raided machine.

[John Johnson]

I will suggest that this could be thought of a two problems:
1) The PC is exhibiting an issue with boot
2) There is a problem with the hard disk(s)

For 1) simply* use a boot CD or boot USB stick and change the PC's BIOS 
Boot Setup to find the device you are using as a boot device.
Making sure the PC boots at all is, I think, important.

For 2) I will leave this to others as I am not familiar with with mdadm 
and raided/mirrored HDD subsystems.

* simply: I do not know how to create a Linux boot disk or USB stick and 
cannot advise further.
I know a DOS or Windows boot CD will serve the purpose but this is a 
Linux forum.

JohnJ


On 2014-03-11 10:36, 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. 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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