Questions tagged [rescue-disk]
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How to clone PMBR disk with bad sectors?
I'm trying to clone 1TB disk with PMBR partition and bad sectors. Which has working Windows partitions on it, and is bootable via MBR.
blkid doesn't recognize partitions
/dev/sdc: PTTYPE="PMBR&...
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Mounting a partition on the same drive as the live cd OS
I have looked all over the internet and I cannot find any insights into exactly what I am trying to do. I have a live cd of a flavor of debian that I am trying to install onto a hard drive for use as ...
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How to create a recovery ISO (or DVD) for Proliant and/or PowerEdge Servers?
THE PROBLEM
We've all been there. The server is toast. It's not booting and something seems really odd.
Sure, there are recovery boot options with most operating systems and a collection of helpful ...
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Install package via apt from a live cd to the real system
I can only boot via live CD and I need to install the Debian package firmware-linux-nonfree to my server for it to be able to successfully boot.
How can I do this? Would chroot help me ?
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Disable maintenance mode from within recovery (Debian)
My rootserver's power supply died the day before and the hoster had to replace it. Since then, the server does not boot correctly anymore. Because of the sudden powerloss, it starts right in some kind ...
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Debian: Get list of installed packages while in rescue mode
How can I get a a list of installed packages from a debian setup which is mounted to /mnt/ while using a rescue mode?
Scenario: Server crashed, only rescue mode possible. Setting up a new server, ...
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Accidentally deleted LVM on raid partition
I accidentally deleted my LVM partition inside /dev/md1. The good thing that my linux root partition and swap inside this LVM are still mounted. I was able to copy all data to my backup HDD, and was ...
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Mdadm raid1 says the last drive attached has failed
I have a software raid1 array.
Today I found one of the drives failed to sync, and I got this:
$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 sdb1[0] sda1[2](F)
153597312 ...
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Mount LVM in rescue mode
I am having trouble mounting a LVM to extract a Proxmox virtual machines data. Any ideas on how I can mount it?
The data is on one of the two 2TB hard drives. I think they are RAID 1
root@rescue:~# ...
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Debian Jessie server would not reboot after update, have access by Rescue, but not sure what to do
Not getting any help from my host from my tickets. Server down fo 24 hours now as I try to google solutions.
Upgraded server to Jessie as an upgrade to Wheezy produced errors, and before reboot ...
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Can't mount my hard drive
When I try to mount one of my hard drives, it can't locate the folder with the hard drive.
This is the output for the command df:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% ...
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Rescue OS with VNC on by default [closed]
I have a linux box that has been running headless as my home server for a year. I've decided it's time to upgrade the OS and do some other things, so I took it out of the closet, disconnected the data ...
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how to reset root password in ubuntu server
We seem to have misplaced the root password for a dedicated server we have (with OVH).
I asked them for instructions on how to reset the root password and this is what they said:
Reboot in rescue ...
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KVM Image Jammed After Power Unplug
We have a HP DL380 Server which has ubuntu 12.04 OS as Host and for Virtualization KVM.
Power of our server unplugged suddenly and after plugging power size of image of vm
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*/var/lib/libvirt/...
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Boot CD for ia64
I'm looking for rescue or live CDs for Itanium servers, but the only bootable CDs I've found are the distros installation CDs. Mainly I want to clone the servers disks, and also check memory or disk ...
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ntfsclone reports "Can't read sector at 470585344, lost data". How can I determine what file that is?
I used ntfsclone from ubuntu to copy a bad windows hard drive to a new one using:
sudo ntfsclone --rescue -f --overwrite /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
which produces the following:
WARNING: Can't read sector ...
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how to install debian from a rescue cd (via ssh)
situation:
server with RAID 1 (2x1000GB)
currently logged in via SSH (network based debian rescue cd)
need to accomplish:
install a debian based Xen (maybe with: http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/LiveCD ?...
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