[BlueOnyx:17598] Re: RAID1 failure BlueOnyx 5208R

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

On 5/13/2015 12:03 AM, 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.

Oh yes... I really wish that we had been able to reply to you before you 
leaped off that edge.  There is no RAID controller in the world (at 
least that I'm familiar with, and I see a lot of 'em) that will allow 
you to simply load up a disk, then it magically mirrors it.   That's in 
the list of things that doesn't happen, ever.

My guess, since it seems you can select between "hardware RAID" and 
direct access to the drive that you have a box with "FAKERAID" aka 
fRAID.  You see this a lot on desktop boards that guys buy at the local 
computer shop and stuff into a case and call it a server.

You should never, ever, under any circumstance attempt to run BlueOnyx 
on a fRAID.  No good will come of that.

More about FAKERAID here:  http://skrypuch.com/raid/

So what you've likely done now is corrupt both disks.

You may be able to fix it.  In fact, the operating system is giving you 
the opportunity and the prompt to do so!   First thing you need to do is 
STOP USING THE FAKERAID.  Turn it off.

Then reboot.  Instead of simply hitting CTRL-D, why not enter your root 
password as it's prompting and then determine what partition is 
corrupted and run fsck on it?   If it's booted this far,

> 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.

Is your FAKERAID still on?  That could do it.  Or there could be 
something else the matter, possibly hardware related.

Suggestion: this might be a good opportunity to outsource the server 
itself.  I know that you and I share a long history of contributing and 
asking questions on this list and you've been through the wringer on a 
few occasions!  Perhaps it's time to let the hardware, RAIDs, drives 
etc. be someone else's problem, and have a support team that's standing 
by to help you if something does go awry.

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Chris Gebhardt
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