From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Leslie Rhorer" Subject: RE: Broken RAID1 boot arrays Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 18:59:11 -0500 Message-ID: <3D.64.20763.25FE9EB4@cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com> References: <1273616411.5140.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1273616411.5140.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > > remote access. This is a headless system, and I really can't > effectively > > work with a local console, plus I need to mount the /boot array in order > to > > properly edit the initrd. I suppose I could mount the drive as a non- > array > > and then force a sync to the second drive, but I'd rather not. > > The debian install discs should do most of that, Yeah, but ssh is a bit of a pain to work with from a live CD when one must repeatedly reboot the system. I'm using an Ubuntu live CD right now, but I have to run `sudo apt-get install openssh-server` on the workstation every time I boot (and as I mentioned, any console access on the machine is rather difficult), and then I have to run `ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ubuntu@backup` from one of my workstations. Once or twice isn't all that bad, but more than that gets old in a hurry. > and lenny or later > allows you to setup a ssh server if you select expert mode. "Lenny" isn't really a good option. I'd much rather have a later kernel. By "Setup", do you mean install the OS, or enter recovery mode? I don't want to try to install the OS: that could be a disaster. BTW, the 2.6.32 kernel is moving the IDE disks all the way from /hda and /hdb to /sdj and /sdk. I think that's part of why it's breaking: the existing mdadm.conf doesn't scan that high. > If that's not complete enough then I believe http://www.sysresccd.org/ > is what you are after. Thanks. I may check it out if I don't get this working in a couple of more boot cycles.