[ale] SuSE woes... GRUB/No Root Partition/Can't mount RAID array

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 22:57 -0500, Ryan Williams wrote: 
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > I might be misremembering the original post, but I think your livecd
> > needs to be able to bring up the RAID volume.  I have done this manually
> > under a Gentoo livecd. 
> > 
> > Is that the problem - that the RAID volume is not visible to you from a
> > liveCD?
> 
> Well, since the post I have been able to boot from my Knoppix disc, 
> switch to root, and do:
> 
> # mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/hda7 /dev/hdb1
> # mount /dev/md0 /home/knoppix/Desktop
> 
> I can then see my RAID directory structure, but if I try to actually 
> move or open a file, it says the file doesn't exist. Am at a loss as to 
> why this would be happening. I've installed and formatted another 80GB 
> drive in the machine in order to copy the most important information to. 
> Knoppix even shows the new drive on the desktop, but even with it, I 
> can't open the drive in Konqueror or find it via the command line.
> 
> Any suggestions?

At this point, unmount the /dev/md0 andtry to dd to the new drive. 
> 
> Ryan
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