Hi and welcome to me A server has crashed and im the only one with enough knowledge around to try to get this machine back to work .. there has been a powerfailure and the server is locked into a panic, since its a mirror .. the server has 2 drives which are stuck ..i have removed 1 mirror ( in case it goes totally bad ,, ) on this system : Debian 4 ( etch ) grub bootloader Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-686 when the system finishes loading the following appears : mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory Done. /init: /init: 175 : cannot open /root/dev/console: No such file Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill innit! now .. i need the system back online because the server failed during the last backup and i cannot get dumps to restore the mysql databases .. and u guessed it .. none of the users on the server has made a dump.. the system is running ispconfig ( only that installed on it ) question a)the system be restored? if yes .. who can explain it to me to the letter ? question b )if not .. how can i restore the databases ? ( i have copied the entire drive on a windows system / unbuntu ) and i have the mirror around .. i believe its something easy ... but im a linux n00b
Not sure what went wrong here, but you can boot into a live system (e.g. Knoppix) and use it to save your data (e.g. your databases). This should give you the idea: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-reset-a-forgotten-root-password-with-knoppix
Hi Falco, thank you for your reply , however i have fixed crashing issue, since the disk was still in tact , i have used a non conventional to get ispconfig back on track .. since the debian etch kernel crashed , i setted up a secondary system and copied the following directories ( cp -vrp ) to the running kernel ( also an etch system .. r08 downloaded yesterday..) mounted my ISPconfig HD as /drive ( mount -t ext3 -o rw /dev/hd1 /disk ) copied the dirs : /bin /home /lib /root /srv /usr /opt /sys /var /etc ( stuff like LIB had errors ) rebooted the system and everything came up .. still left me with adjusting the isp system itself and setting up the network but after i had changed the network .. it booted fine now i can fire up the backups and re-port them into plesk ( for the time beeing) any advice on how to change the databases from ISP config to plesk ?
