[NTLUG:Discuss] HELP!
Douglas King
daking at dak1.net
Fri Jun 20 14:27:14 CDT 2003
The other day, I lost power to a backup machine I have. It is a Compaq
(please don't hold this against me), with SCSI drives in there. I had
someone from the list help me set this machine up, etc....but having
problems now. When trying to boot up (Red Hat 7.3), it tries to find the
drives that were "Raid ed" together. There were four, but one died a while
back...so the remaining three drives. The drives are /dev/md0. Partial
way through the boot, that "drive" fails to be read....thus prompting the
following:
fsck.ext3: Invalid arguement/dev/md0
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains and ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is
corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock.:
e2fsckj -b 8193 <device>
while trying to open /dev/md0 [FAILED]
*** An error occurred during the file system check.
***Dropping you to a shell: the system will reboot
***when you leave the shell.
Give the root password for maintenance
(or type CTRL-D for normal startup (which it will not do)
Can I get into a command line editor to undo the Raid drives? I have
removed the actual SCSI drives that were in the Raid, for a modified IDE
drive running a SCSI controller. I need to format that new drive, and tell
Red Hat go look HERE now for the new partition etc.
Can someone shed dome light on this for me? I'm not a true Linux
"guru"...but have been playing around with it now for almost a
year. Command line is not one of my strengths.....so...PLEASE spell out
what I need to do.
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