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
