RAID I failure
 

Crazy, but I unplugged a harddrive by 'accident' and replugged it in. On unclean shutdown and upon restarting, one of the hard drives went critical. I deleted and rebuild the array, which showed functional upon reboot.

Here is where the fun begins.

System integrity check: Y

After clean check of root filesystem I get the following error:

REmounting root filesystem in read-write mode: mount: LABEL=/ duplicate - not mounted FAILED

That's where it starts, and then I have more erros, which I will gladly supply. It continue with many failures of no such file or directory and then tries over and over with:

INIT: ID "n" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

where n equals the different run levels.

Am I SOL here?

The boot disk just gives me the same process.

ANY help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

-joseph

Is this a software RAID (raidtools or mdadm) issue or hardware RAID?

It is an integrated promise chip.

If you deleted and rebuilt the array then you probably won't have much of anyhting left on that volume.

I deleted the critical drive and then added it back. When they came back up, it was functional.

The samething happened regardless though. When I went in the first time, I didn't mess with the arrays, and recieved the same errors. I am clueless here.

SOL?

you're booting from this array, correct? If so you might want to grab and burn a KNoppix .iso and boot from the CD you create to see if you can get a hint as to what might have gone wrong. At the very least you should backup all critical data (/home, logs, setups in /etc) then you can mess with it a little more.

You should also try to find out why the array failed in the first place - are the drives getting hot?

LOL, no they are not...it was totally mindless. I was too lax on plugging and unplugging while running and didn't think.

I have a different server that needs some configuration that will back this one up, so I am not too worried. Just have a lot of files I would like to grab from this one.

I tried the boot disk I made for the system, and that didn't work, but I guess I could try this other that you are mentioning. If I can get into the box, I can burn the files and be ok in the end. I was going to put this system down as primary anyway.

I guess there is still a chance to save some files then, eh?

Thanks again,

Joseph

Possibly - you'll need to know how to mount the RAID device. From the Config help file