Re: [PLUG] Box won't boot after RAID drive swap

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Not very easily. The box is just spontaneously shutting down,
sometimes before it even gets to the BIOS screen.

On Sat, Nov 05, 2022 at 03:13:33PM -0400, jeffv wrote:
> Can you get into the bios and look around?
> 
> On November 5, 2022 1:11:00 PM EDT, Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Last week I emailed the list because I got an alert that one of the
> >drives in my RAID1 array was in danger of failing. Thanks to everyone
> >who replied in that thread!
> >
> >I ordered some new drives, and this morning I attempted to install a
> >new drive. It didn't go well.
> >
> >There didn't seem to be any easy way to add this drive as a third
> >drive (I didn't see where I'd plug it in on my motherboard) so I
> >decided to remove the old drive and replace it with the new one. This
> >is where my problems started. I think I must have been using device
> >names instead of UUIDs in the RAID. The boot process got stuck trying
> >to connect to a nonexistent /dev/sde drive.
> >
> >Things I've tried:
> >* Booting into recovery mode
> >* Unplugging the new drive
> >* Putting the old drive back
> >
> >None of these worked. I'm at a point now where the workstation is
> >spontaneously powering off in the middle of the boot process.
> >Sometimes it's on the BIOS screen, sometimes it gets a little
> >further. Needless to say this makes figuring out what's wrong quite
> >difficult.
> >
> >My best guess is that in opening up the case for the first time in 6
> >years and removing the drive from a tight space, I loosened something
> >else important, but if that's the case I can't find it.
> >
> >I'm feeling pretty stuck now.  All I can think to do now is to try to
> >boot off a flash drive, but I'm not even sure that will work since I'm
> >having trouble even getting past the BIOS screen now.
> >
> >I'm wondering if anyone else has ever run into something like this. If
> >so, do you have any advice on what else I might check?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Walt
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