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@ 2015-07-28 11:34 Peter Humphrey
  2015-07-28 11:39 ` Peter Humphrey
  2015-07-28 13:22 ` [gentoo-user] Hubris? Stroller
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 22+ messages in thread
From: Peter Humphrey @ 2015-07-28 11:34 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hello list,

Hardly had I said that MBR had caused me no problems in years, guess what? It 
did. I tried to mount /boot (ext2) to install a new kernel but it couldn't be 
mounted - wrong fs type or some such. When I got it mounted as ext4 it looked 
fine. Fsck had found nothing wrong either, but fdisk showed the wrong partition 
as Active. /boot is on /dev/md1 which is RAID-1 built on /dev/sd[ab]1, so sda1 
should have been marked Active (it was when I set it up), but the spare, empty 
sda2 was instead.

On booting a rescue system and correcting the Active flag with fdisk, all the 
files in it disappeared. So I put them back in and booted the main system. Same 
all over again.

In the end I just zapped /, /var, /usr/portage etc, restored from an older 
backup, synced and emerged -e world. Then restoring the files in /boot resulted 
in a stable system.

Looks like time I investigated GPT or BTRFS. But I don't want to go from GRUB 
legacy to GRUB-2. Is that possible?

-- 
Rgds
Peter



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2015-07-28 11:34 [gentoo-user] Hubris? Peter Humphrey
2015-07-28 11:39 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-07-28 12:16   ` Neil Bothwick
2015-07-28 12:31     ` Rich Freeman
2015-07-28 14:40       ` Peter Humphrey
2015-07-28 16:26         ` Rich Freeman
2015-07-28 17:02           ` Neil Bothwick
2015-07-28 19:29           ` Bruce Schultz
2015-07-28 20:18             ` Neil Bothwick
2015-07-28 21:59               ` Mick
2015-07-28 23:40                 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-07-29  8:22                   ` Peter Humphrey
2015-07-29  9:03                     ` Neil Bothwick
2015-07-29  8:13               ` Peter Humphrey
2015-07-29  8:21                 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-07-29 10:53               ` Bruce Schultz
2015-08-09 16:13                 ` Jeremi Piotrowski
2015-08-09 23:14                   ` Paul Tobias
2015-08-10  0:06                     ` [gentoo-user] Hubris? James
2015-08-11  0:44                       ` Jeremi Piotrowski
2015-08-11  2:44                         ` James
2015-07-28 13:22 ` [gentoo-user] Hubris? Stroller

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