[BlueOnyx:17592] Re: RAID1 failure BlueOnyx 5208R

[Tigerwolf]

On Wed, 13 May 2015, Tom wrote:

> Today is not my lucky day.:)
> And I now can answer for a hardware raid. I did the hardware RAID, them
> claiming it will copy the source to the secondary. It did and after that
> the good drive won't boot. Both drives takes me to the same place the bad
> drive stopped at, where you enter your root password to get to the prompt
> or CTRL-D to reboot.

If it stops like that during boot, it means the file system has errors, 
and it can't fix them automatically.   You need to enter the root 
password, and then run 'fsck' manually on the disk.  It will probably spit 
ut errors telling what it found, and say 'fix?'.  Answering yes lets it do 
its best.  Generally, once you get done, it will work ok, but there's some 
chance there's some data corruption...which is why you need to do a backup 
while things are still working.

> So I decided to just run the newest 5209 BlueOnyx. I downloaded the ISO 3
> times from 3 different sites and it will not install. It claims it needs
> 479+ gigabytes and I only have 250 gigabytes. If I select both drives, it
> then claims it needs 699 gigabytes and I only have 500 gigabytes. So I gave
> up and am installing 5208.

I can't address that.  Likely Michael can.  He's the BX guru.