I know this is a silly question, but is the md driver loaded and are the md services running? Chet On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Barry Brimer <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't use software RAID, but I would probably want to do this in rescue > mode off of disc 1. What RAID level are you using? > > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jason Brown wrote: > > When I tried booting it into single user mode the server would still go to >> maintenance mode. I was able to get at it another way by passing >> "init=/bin/bash" which got me to a command prompt. Then remounted the >> drive >> with rw since it was in ro mode, and then changed the password. Now I >> have >> it in maintenance mode again, I just need to figure out how to do an fsck >> on >> a raid system. When I try fsck /dev/md0 I got a bad super block error and >> to run e2fsck -b 8192 which gives me the same error message. >> Any ideas would be appreciated. >> Thanks. >> >> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Barry Brimer <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> My file server locked up and I had to reboot it, when it came up its >>> stuck >>> >>>> in the FSCK maintenance. Is there a way that I can run this without a >>>> root >>>> password or reset the password? The file system is an ext3 in a raid 5 >>>> configuration. >>>> >>>> >>> I would be very cautious about interrupting an fsck. If you reboot your >>> machine and press a key to bring up the grub menu, then type 'e' to edit >>> that kernel entry, move to the kernel line, hit 'a' to append .. place an >>> 's' at the end of the line and hit enter and then 'b' to boot you will >>> boot >>> without the root password into single user mode. >>> >>> Barry >>> >>> -- >>> redhat-list mailing list >>> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >>> >>> -- >> redhat-list mailing list >> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >> >> !DSPAM:48f32bb0112171984720347! >> >> >> > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- ---------------------------------------- chet nichols III chet.nichols@xxxxxxxxx aim: chet / twitter: chet http://chetnichols.org ---------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
