Lost my partition table - can I recover?

Scott Garman sgarman at iname.com
Thu Aug 5 09:39:01 EDT 2004


My situation: I have an HP server with two hot-swap SCSI drive bays.
It's got a RAID controller in it, which has to "initialize" new drives
before they can be recognized by the controller. It refers to them as
"logical" drives. 

I have inadvertently deleted the logical drive on the original disk, and
I can not boot to Linux anymore. I am certain that all that's happened
is the RAID controller re-wrote a new partition table with no
partitions. When I boot from a RHEL 3.0 CD in rescue mode, it sees the
drive detected as /dev/cciss/c0d0, whereas before it was
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1. 

Can I recover from this without having to do a reinstall? This is, ahem,
a time-critical problem. :( :( :(

Scott

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Scott Garman
sgarman at iname dot com




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