Re: [Hampshire] Server failure

On 17/04/2008, john lewis <johnlewis@???> wrote:
> Like vlad, though for different reasons, landing has failed. We have a
> very brief power failure yesterday, long enough to cause all systems
> to shutdown.
>
> two systems came back up but landing failed to boot and I only
> discovered this when I tried to access the geneweb data stored on it.
>
> Landing is an old Saxon server with dual pentium 400s, 1Gb ram and
> three 6.3Gb scsi drives. It doesn't have any other drives
> connected other than a CD writer on the secondary master.
>
> Grub has
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.15 root=/dev/sda1 ro
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15
> save default
>
> I have played with these setting but cannot get it to boot past a
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknow block (8,1)
> Please append a correct "root= " boot option
> kernel panic - noy syncing: VFS: unable to mount rootfs on unknown
> block (8.1)
>
> just before those messages appears the raid setup:
>
> md: Auto detecting RAID arrays
> md: Considering sdc1
> md: adding sdc1
> md: adding sdb1
> md: adding sda1
> md: created md0
> md: bind <sda1>
> md: bind <sdb1>
> md: bind <sdc1>
> md: running: <sdc1><sdb1><sda1>
> md: raid1 set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
> md: autorun DONE
>

Won't that normally appear as a device in /dev/mapper/
The name of it might be anything.