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boot a non-raid disk on a server

I have a HP ML310e that I am trying to recover data off. It has a RAID 10 array and I am wanting to boot a non-raid hard drive on the server. I can't see this disk in the bios, so I can't boot from ...
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“LV Status NOT available” after converting root from lvm2 to lvm2+raid1 (lvconvert --type raid1)

I just converted by lvm2 root filesystem from linear lvm2 (single HDD:sda) to lvm2 raid1 (using lvconvert -m1 --type raid1 /dev/ubuntu/root /dev/sdb5 command). But after this conversion I can't boot ...
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Error at booting server - ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

I installed Debian 6 on HP server with hardware RAID 5 configured. RAID Controller Info 04:03.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 64xx [0e11:0046] (rev 01) Kernel ...
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Dell PowerEdge R510 SATA drives appearing as SAS

I have a Dell PowerEdge R510 with the following: PERC H700 2 x 500GB cabled SATA drives (RAID 1) 6 x 3 TB SAS hot swap drives (5 in RAID 6) I was testing an online expansion of the RAID array ...
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MDADM not assembling raid0 that is part of a raid5 on boot

I use a RAID0 (md2) as a device in a RAID5 (md3) setup (see below). Now everytime the computer boots, mdadm will mark md3 as degraded and i am forced to re-add md2 as a new spare. Of course mdadm then ...
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How to disable the RAID in x3400 M2

Hi I just wanna disable the default RAID in my server IBM System X3400 M2 Server(7837-24X),i have 3 disk drives SAS. I want to make them a JBOD "Just a Bunch Of Disks", because I want to install in ...
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From which plex am I booted from on raid?

I have a server with mirrored boot volume. It is software raid 1 in Windows Server 2008 R2. I do not have physical access to the server. I am looking for a way to check which disk is a boot drive. I ...
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Error 5 partition table invalid or corrupt

I'm trying to add a second SSD to a Centos 6 system. But I get the Error 5 partition table invalid or corrupt at boot. The system already has a single SSD (sdb) and a pair of HDDs (sd{a,c}) in a ...
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Strange boot behaviour

I have installed Arch Linux on a server machine with a LSI hardware RAID 5. When the machine boots, it says: :: Triggering uevents... udevd[37]: worker [41] timeout, kill it udevd[37]: seq 547 ...
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How to boot GRUB2 so it mounts “root” on a different drive (remote server without kvm switch)

Summary: I created a copy of the root file system on a raid array (with one disk on it), and im trying to get the system to boot off that newly copied drive. Background: 2 disks of same size in ...
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Server RAID 1 Cannot rebuilt, cannot boot into Windows

My office's server has failed recently after a power outage (we have no UPS). It turned out that it will not even boot into Windows (not even safe mode). The server was running in RAID 1 consisting a ...
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raid boot error

in boot.log /dev/md1: clean, 320806/58155008 files, 91390310/232603728 blocks /dev/md0 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. /dev/md0: 32/24384 files (9.4% non-contiguous), 19957/97536 blocks ...
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vmware install on raid, no logical drive seen

Trying to install vmware esxi 5 on a fujitsu S100R5 server (two drive bays). I have the drives as a hardware RAID 1 array, but vmware is showing the two physical drives at install time. If i ...
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mdadm puts wrong devices in array on boot Correct mdadm.conf file

Upon boot it stuffs it up every time: [root][centos ~] cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md127 : inactive sda[2] sdb[3] 1953524992 blocks unused devices: ...
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Linux boot: md raid FS not ready (sometimes)

Using Ubuntu 11.04 (latest patched) I have 5 RAID-1 file systems that are automatically assembled during the boot process (Note: none of the system FS /, /usr... are raid, only user FSes). Once in ...
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Is there a way to ignore the “fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve LABEL” error during the boot?

We have a file-cluster on servers with multiple disks, and we have created a software RAID1 over boot and / partitions, planning that if a single disk goes down, we still will be able to boot and ...
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Dell PowerEdge 1800 Hangs at boot after Dell Cerc Sata RAID Controller Successfully POSTs

Server crashed one night. I rebooted, now it hangs just after the SATA RAID Controller successfully POSTs. This unit has a RAID 5 array, but I haven't pulled a recent enough backup of the data on it ...
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“Verifying DMI Pool” hang caused by raid array

I have a problem, I obtained a new server with 4 hard drives (2 500 gig, 2 two TB), and an adeptec RAID card. I arranged them in two arrays with RAID 1 (500 gigs together as primary and the 2 TB ...
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My server was used to boot (problem after MDADM raid rebuild)

My home-backup server, with 8*2TB disks won't boot anymore. Two disks failed at the same time and i rebuilt the raid 6 array with no problem, but now i can't boot the os. I'm using ubuntu server, ...
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software RAID array not starting in initramfs on Debian

One of my Debian servers (kernel 2.6.30-AMD64) refuses to start the software RAID array that houses the root partition in initramfs. It dumps me with a busybox console. When I follow the necessary ...
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Slow logical volume detection

I am experiencing some issues with test server lately. It was installed few days ago and worked OK until yesterday, when it did not wake up after reboot. Bootloader did not find root device. Error: ...
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Rebuilding bootable RAID1 array

I have a home server, running Linux, which has a 2-disk software RAID1 device mounted on /. I recently had to replace one of the disks, so I removed the faulty one, put in a new one and added it to ...
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Can I boot from a software RAID5 setup with linux?

I am planning the setup of a new NAS system, deciding if using Openfiler or something similar. I've been checking some RAID cards, and thinking about hardware failure or substitution, and I have the ...
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Why is GRUB drive enumeration different before and after boot?

I'm looking at a system with Debian/Lenny on a couple of old IDE PATA drives (several RAID-1 partitions including /boot) and a relatively recently added SATA drive. The system works fine but I've ...
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Need informations about RAID5 behaviour in XenServer 5.5

I've detected an I/O error in my partition /dev/sdd3 which is a part of 4 devices assembled with RAID5. Now my server is in degraded mode with only 3/4 sync drives. I have a boot partition ...
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windows 2003 software raid - booting secondary disk with no FT floppy

I have a Windows 2003 Server machine, using the built in software RAID-1 support with two SATA drives. If the 2nd drives fails (that is, when I pull out the drive connector) everything works ...