Topic: operating system not found - HELP!!

[btaactive]

Hi Guys,

Any tips or tricks to get a server running. Maybe HD failure.

I have SME 7.?? with 2 x 500gb drives in raid 1.

System says 'operating system not found'

One of the drives makes some funny noises on start up. Unplugged it and tried to launch. Still get then 'operating system not found'. Just in case, I have tried to start on both drives. No love!

I do have a backup (darrell may) from thursday if I am desperate.

QUESTIONS
Any tips to get it going?
If I have to use the backup, does Dmay backup from V7 work on SME V8?

Any help would be great.

Ben

[guest22]

Sounds like a serious problem. I don't have raid knowledge, so maybe someone else can assist.

Maybe it is also a good time to consider new hardware and upgrade to SME 9. The latest ISO of SME 9 is 99,99% the upcoming final.

guest
 

[btaactive]

Probably. I have attached single drive to Windows machine and used a number of EXT viewers. Nothing. Maybe both drives are dead.

I am currently installing 8.1

Just need to know if my Darrell May backup from last Thursday will restore to 8.1? or am I wasting my time.

Can I restore the DAR files to a PC then just manually copy to new server?

Thanks in advance.

[btaactive]

Getting desperate now.... Have downloaded DARGUI and am trying to get to the files in the backup through Windows. Not working....

Any ideas?

[TerryF]

I presume you will have to install SME 8 then the contrib you are using to do your backups and THEN use it to restore..

I doubt very much if SME 9 would be compat with that particular contrib, is it even a SME 8 contrib?

You may even have to do a SME 7 install, install the conrtib, restore your data and then, upgrade it to SME 8.

Good Luck

Added: You can open a dar file from within SME using a MC addon..see the relevant DAR wiki page  http://wiki.contribs.org/DAR2#Midnight_Commander_.28MC.29_dar-extension

[TerryF]

and are you talking about the old DAR2 contrib?

http://wiki.contribs.org/DAR2#Midnight_Commander_.28MC.29_dar-extension

If it is install a clean SMe8.1 install the contrib setup the relevant and same job parameters and the restore should be accessible and usable..

[btaactive]

Thanks Terry F fr the reply. Yes, OLD DAR2.

I have installed. Changed the spcs to CIFS.... Seems to be doing something!!!
Literally SH&*&ing my pants here..

I hope it works.

Should I be using something other than DAR2?

[TerryF]

The default back/restore of SME8 and 9 is built on that old contrib..much better..

Backup from the console in particular works very well and on any new install you can restore that backup  during the install.

Hope it all works out..

[btaactive]

AAAAARGH,

Doesn't seem to be working...

Getting the following

Performing ibays restore
Jun 24 18:09:56 btaserver e-smith-bg: No terminal found for user interaction. All questions will be assumed a negative answer (less destructive choice), which most of the time will abort the program.
Jun 24 18:09:56 btaserver e-smith-bg: FATAL error, aborting operation
Jun 24 18:09:56 btaserver e-smith-bg: Badly formatted terminator, cannot extract catalogue location:
Jun 24 18:09:56 btaserver e-smith-bg: Opening the archive using the multi-slice abstraction layer...
Jun 24 18:09:56 btaserver e-smith-bg: Error met while opening the last slice: This is an old archive, it can only be opened starting by the first slice. Trying to open the archive using the first slice...
Jun 24 18:09:56 btaserver e-smith-bg: Reading the archive header...
Jun 24 18:09:56 btaserver e-smith-bg: Considering cyphering layer...
Jun 24 18:09:56 btaserver e-smith-bg: No cyphering layer opened, adding cache layer for performance
Jun 24 18:09:56 btaserver e-smith-bg: Opening the compression abstraction layer (compression algorithm used is none)...
Jun 24 18:09:56 btaserver e-smith-bg: All layers have been created successfully
Jun 24 18:09:56 btaserver e-smith-bg: Locating archive contents...
Jun 24 18:09:56 btaserver e-smith-bg: Final memory cleanup...
Jun 24 18:14:36 btaserver smbd[3948]: [2014/06/24 18:14:36.204024,  0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:248(startsmbfilepwent)
Jun 24 18:14:36 btaserver smbd[3948]:   startsmbfilepwent_internal: file /etc/samba/smbpasswd did not exist. File successfully created


THEN Nothing for about 1/2 hour.

Is it compatible with V8.1?

[btaactive]

Super Desperate Now

Installed 7.3 and will try and restore. BUT, cant Yum DAR2

Any Ideas?

[Daniel B.]

Please, define what does "cant yum DAR2" means (what do you get ?)

[btaactive]

on 7.3 - Cant seem to find the files for DAR2. It worked no issue on 8.1

[root@btaserver ~]# yum install smeserver-dar2 --enablerepo=smecontribs
==============================================================
WARNING: Additional commands may be required after running yum
==============================================================
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/smeserver/releases/7/smecontribs/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Trying other mirror.
http://sme-mirror.voxteneo.com/releases/7/smecontribs/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp.surfnet.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/smeserver/releases/7/smecontribs/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://smemirror.fullnet.co.uk/releases/7/smecontribs/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Trying other mirror.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/7/smecontribs/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/smeserver/releases/7/smecontribs/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: smecontribs
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smecontribs: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smecontribs: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
================================================================
No new rpms were installed. No additional commands are required.
================================================================

[Daniel B.]

As SME7 has been declared EOF for about a year, all repositories are in the obsoletes directories. See http://wiki.contribs.org/SME8.0_Contribs_QA#Working_available_through_SME7_smecontribs_repo_in_obsolete to ajdust your yum config

Code: [Select]

db yum_repositories set smecontribs repository \
Name 'SME 7 - contribs' \
BaseURL 'http://mirror.contribs.org/releases/obsolete/7.6/smecontribs/$basearch' \
GPGCheck yes \
Visible no \
status disabled

signal-event yum-modify
yum clean all


[btaactive]

Beat me to it. Just found that article.

Hopefully I can restore. This is killing me. Been at it for about 14 hours.

[btaactive]

I think 7.3 is not going to help. I am downloading 7.6.

The DAR files are on my Windows USB drive. Any tips to access them from Windows. Tried DARgui etc... Nothing.

Could the DAR be stuffed?