On Wednesday 24 June 2009 12:28:42 am Tobias Powalowski wrote:
Am Mittwoch 24 Juni 2009 schrieb David C. Rankin:
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 04:20:51 pm David C. Rankin wrote: <big snip>
Now this is very scary looking. The sdb[5-8] and sdd[5-8] partitions are GONE?? (Bummer..) Obviously, I can no longer boot archlinux??
Listmates,
Is there a way I can boot from the install media and then downgrade the kernel to 2.6.29 to see if that resolves my missing partition and "won't boot" problem for my Arch install? If so, anybody got a link to a howto or a short version of what I would need to do after booting from the install media?
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/iso/archboot those have 2.6.29 kernel and dmraid 1.0.0rc14 included, good luck greetings tpowa
Tobias, I don't know whether I should throw in the towel and reinstall or attempt to recover the partitions by somehow recreating the device-mapper nodes somehow. I booted with archboot-2009.05-2 (dmraid-1.0.0rc14 and 2.6.29 kernel and there was no difference, all of the following were still GONE: brw------- 1 root disk 254, 2 2009-06-22 01:40 nvidia_ecaejfdip5 brw------- 1 root disk 254, 3 2009-06-22 01:40 nvidia_ecaejfdip6 brw------- 1 root disk 254, 4 2009-06-22 01:40 nvidia_ecaejfdip7 brw------- 1 root disk 254, 5 2009-06-22 01:40 nvidia_ecaejfdip8 The raid array is seen just fine: brw------- 1 root disk 254, 0 2009-06-22 13:48 nvidia_ecaejfdi and the raid set is active: [01:26 ecstasy:~] # dmraid -ay RAID set "nvidia_ecaejfdi" already active RAID set "nvidia_fdaacfde" already active but no partitions: [01:34 ecstasy:~] # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 488386584 sda 8 1 1 sda1 8 5 72229 sda5 8 6 2104483 sda6 8 7 20972826 sda7 8 8 465234336 sda8 8 16 732574584 sdb 8 32 488386584 sdc 8 33 1 sdc1 8 37 72229 sdc5 8 38 2104483 sdc6 8 39 20972826 sdc7 8 40 465234336 sdc8 8 48 732574584 sdd 253 0 732574583 dm-0 253 1 488386583 dm-1 253 2 488384001 dm-2 253 3 72229 dm-3 253 4 2104483 dm-4 253 5 20972826 dm-5 253 6 465234336 dm-6 253 7 72229 dm-7 253 8 2104483 dm-8 253 9 20972826 dm-9 253 10 465234336 dm-10 After whatever happened -- happened every one of the partitions is gone. I'm sure the data and boundaries are still there and intact, but I can't find a way to get to it and set it up. What's the consensus, just scrap this Arch install and reinstall? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com