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A few weeks ago I removed a drive from one of the servers so I could xerox the label so my boss could order a few more. Actually we were eventually shipped incorrect drives, and I shipped them back and ordered some from CPU Sales in Waltham. At some point, I dropped the drive on the floor and the system would no longer boot. So I reformatted the other drive and reloaded RHEL 4 U3. But, when I put that drive in one of the slots, the system either hands or tries to boot from it. Using a standalone gparted, I blew away the partition table, but I still could not boot from the other HD with that drive in a slot. So, I put the drive in my HP Integrity (IA64). The IA64 has a much different booting mechanism, and I was able to boot. I also was able to get LVM to initialize the drive. But, that in itself did not blow away the boot block, so I first ran badblocks destructively on the drive and blew away the boot block with dd. That solved the booting problem on the Intel x86-64 boxes. I was able to use LVM to initialize the drive, but LVM failed to extend the logical volume. I them manually extended the logical volume using the command line lvm, but ex2online still failed. But, I unmounted the logical volume, and e2resize worked fine. Not sure why ex2online failed (it was an ioctl call that failed, not an apparent error). In any case, it came back online. The particular logical volume is used for backup so it's not actually on the critical path. If it later fails, it can be removed, because we have a secondary backup in New York. In any case, this is probably my last post since I'll be out of town until Marathon day. -- -- Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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