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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Shane McDaniel on June 28, 2001, 09:41:37 PM
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Can you please help Im running around in circles - I had a major power failure and motherboard power supply fried, backup hard drive had died the night before so I backed everything back up to the server only to wake to find the said crashed server :o(, rebulit machine from ground up now running duron 750 mirrored 40 gig hard drives 64 mb . I love it very much no problem there. My problem is this during the crash was unable to use old hard drive to reboot machine, message reads - [
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
...autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesytem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
auto: auto: no such file or directory
Now I dont mind not rescuing the boot record or even using the drive as Ive built another. My problem is that I need the stuff thats on that drive but for the life of me I cant find anywhere in the documentation a way to read the disk let alone retrieve the data. 2 questions -
1: is there a way to look at the files on the disk without initiating the boot sequence and if so how
2: can I read the data using another os such as windows ( I know its probably a silly question and I hate to mention the "W" word here). I am desperate please help.
Shane
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Shane McDaniel wrote:
> during the crash was unable to use old hard drive to reboot
> machine, message reads - [
Did you make a rescue boot floppy after installing e-smith? You can use that to boot the computer, and then fsck to perform a filesystem check and repair.
Paul