Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 11:24:28 AM, you wrote: > Andrew Junev wrote: >>> I apologise for such a messy description. If there's anything I can >>> provide or clarify - let me know how I could do it. >> >>> I would really appreciate any hints on how to get my system back... >> >> >> >> Update: now while trying to boot to an old FC8, I get an error: >> >> >> /sbin/init: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libsepol.so.1: >> invalid ELF header >> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! >> >> >> Doesn't look good... :-( >> >> I would prefer to continue with an upgrade to F12 if possible, but I >> don't know how to do it and I'm not sure it is possible at all... > I would suggest you to separate your recovery in steps. > First thing: disconnect your two 1TB drives where you have your data. > Second: try to fix the system when using only the 2 200GB disks. > Losing the system will be bad, losing the data would be worse. Ok, I disconnected data drives and also disconnected one of the mirrored drives (I know, I know - I should have done it before I tried the whole upgrade thing)... With only one drive connected (degraded RAID) I booted from a Live CD and tried to run fsck. It gave me a lot of errors about incorrect inodes and something like that. I then tried to correct the errors, but it didn't change the situation - I still couldn't boot from the hard disk to either FC8 or F12. Well, I still have another drive from this mirror disconnected, so I can (hopefully) get my system back to where it was before I ran fsck. Next step, I tried to reinstall F12 to my degraded array from the very beginning. I booted F12 istallation DVD, but it complained it can't find any drive to install the system to. I can see in the log files it detects my disk as /dev/sda, but then it says: wrong # of devices in RAID set "pdc_eceihagjh" [1/2] on /dev/sda So the installer probably rejects an idea to install Fedora on a degraded array - am I right? Is there a way to force it? I'd like to keep an old system on the spare drive for the time being. It is actually accessible when booting from a Live CD and I think I may need some configuration files from there to set up new system correctly. -- Best regards, Andrew -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
