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This is not a question, it is a fix to an issue I ran into. I couldn't find anywhere else to post this. Seemed to belong here more than Code Project.
I had a Toshiba Tecra A6 that was sitting around doing nothing so I decided to install Fedora 18 on it. I initially put the ISO on an 8GB USB drive using the Fedora Live USB Creator[^] and found that installation would choke and die when checking the installation media location.
So I booted from a DVD and the installation went through with no issues, but after the initial reboot I was presented with a black screen with a flashing underscore cursor in the top left hand corner. This wasn't much use as I couldn't use Fedora.
So after a bit of searching I found this page about Reinstall Grub 2 in Fedora 17[^], following is command by command play on what I found doing this on Fedora 18.
Boot from the DVD
Select Troubleshooting <-'
Select Rescue a Fedora System <-'
Select Continue <-'
Select OK <-'
Select OK <-'
Select shell Start shell
Select OK <-'
chroot /mnt/sysimage <-'
grub-install /dev/sda <-'
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg <-'
exit <-'
exit <-'
Select reboot Reboot
Select OK <-'
After the reboot the GRUB 2 screen came up, I selected Fedora and it booted in fine.
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Thanks. This is actually one of the first hits we found as well when we started searching. The free tool could not help us because it only handles RAID5 with one disk missing (I still cannot believe we lost two at the same time). All the experts told us not to fiddle around too much or we might cause a lot of damage.
We opted for a $1350 "flat rate with no diagnostic fee" solution. They have had the stuff for a couple of weeks and already told us all files could be recovered.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Glad to hear it.
There are several methods to recover data from a disk depending on what is actually wrong with it.
From what I understand from some of my research from wanting to get into Deep data recovery.
They some times only have one shot to get the data off a bad disk and save it as a disk image.
And the Equiptemnt Was way out of my budget, even for the cheap stuff.
But Some companys even though they recover everything only give you the data back that you asked for.
And what they agreed to charge you for.
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 Good to know.
We asked them if they would be able to recover the whole thing, meaning the bootable OS and all. They said they normally would not do that because they are not able to verify that it is actually working, but they would make an exception. We are still waiting to get it back though.
Just between the two of us ( ), it was our domain server and we have had numerous issues running without it. We did set up a new one and started migrating desktop systems to it, but some of the file servers have complex user and group privileges on the shares.
I will not go into the reasons why we do not have a working backup of the domain server.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: The free tool could not help us because it only handles RAID5 with one disk missing...
If you only had one disk missing, then you would not have noticed any drama accessing your data, though you would have received notice from the RAID that one of your disks was dead.
RAID 5 allows for one disk to die and not affect the RAID. RAID 5 allows for the redundancy of 1 disk with parity spread around. When 2 disk go, you'are sh*t out of luck.
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Right. If one drive is dead, but the RAID is undamaged, it is just a matter of replacing the drive. The free tool can be used for repairing a damaged or failed (not sure what the correct term is) RAID5 with zero or one missing/dead drive.
In any case, since we were in the "out of luck" situation, we left it up to experts to fix it for us.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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