Topic: Raid Problem URGENT!!!

[Robert Heaton]

Hello,

I recently changed some settings on SME 5.6 and required a reboot, when the system rebooted, it threw up loads of raid errors, (I'm using software raid) and I was left with;

Setting clock dup2: bad file descriptor
/etc/rc.sysinit: /dev/null read-only file system
grep /proc/mounts: no such file or directory
checking root filesystem
dup2: bad file desciptor

I am then asked to enter root password for maintenence, upon logging in, I can mount the / filesystem, then when I try to run fsck /
It says "Couldn't open /proc/partitions: no such file or directory
Is /proc mounted?


Any ideas? PLEASE HELP!!!

Rob.


P.S. I have tried booting from both drives, and the message is the same

[Robert Heaton]

Update,

I have mounted /proc by typing mount /proc
But when trying to load fsck / i get the message:
Error Couldn't open /dev/null (Read Only Filesystem)

How do I mount / as a Read/Write filesystem,

I tried mount / and got /dev/md1 already mounted or / busy
according to mtab, /dev/md1 is alreeady mounted on /

I have also tried accessing the partition directly by

mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc1 /

But got the same error.

Any ideas? Rob.

[guestHH]

Hi Rob,

reboot and login as 'single' (or do a 'init 1')

Then you can check the filesystems safe.

[Robert Heaton]

Hi!

I tried that, and managed to run fsck, but it didn't return any errors, so it looks like the file sstem is intact.

Cheers,
Rob.


P.S. Do you know how to pause the linux startup, so you can read any errors it throws up at boot time? Shift + Pause doesn't seem to work!

[Michael Smith]

Go to Server Manager, have a look at the dmesg log.

[Robert Heaton]

I can't get that far, as the server doesn't start.

Rob.

[Ed]

You may not be able to stop it but
I think Crtl-PageUp should let you go back...