Re: Please help: New system with old EVMS+BBR drives ?
Anthony Mutiso <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:24:51 -0600
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.evms.devel |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============1927598579020818462== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------070608090501050306040305" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070608090501050306040305 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrew Schulman wrote: >> I have a broken old system with 2x 250GB drives, in raid 1, with BBR on it. >> Since the old system was a very trimmed down gentoo I couldn't boot it >> on other hardware, so I tried to recover the drives with a fresh debian >> etch install. >> >> But now I can't get it to work. I compiled my own kernel (2.6.15.7), >> patched it according to the installation instructions, but it ends >> either of 2 ways: >> - If I try to activate the volumes I get an error in EVMS, and some >> notices from devicemapper, saying failed to insert target (bbr) >> - Or I just can't see any SATA disks at all (system is on a IDE drive so >> that boots fine) >> >> Can anyone tell me which distro/setup still supports EVMS+BBR ? >> If not, is there another way (without evms) to recover the data from >> those disks ? It contains my complete photo collection for almost over >> 10 years, and it would be an emotional disaster to loose all those pictures. >> > > Distros and kernels that support EVMS are becoming scarce. Sadly, it's the > death spiral of EVMS. > > The last I looked, SystemRescueCd (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page) > supported EVMS. Not sure about BBR, though. IIRC there's a kernel module, > dm_bbr, that you have to build and insert in order to use BBR? > > When migrating my Gentoo systems away from EVMS to plain old mdadm and/or LVM2 I used older Gentoo Live book CD's that worked just great. They had both EVMS and LVM2 working. You can find a live-cd in your favorite Gentoo Mirror <http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors2.xml>'s /releases/ folder. > I don't think there's any way to read those drives except by EVMS+BBR. > However, I don't see any reason that you shouldn't be able to build a > kernel to do that, as long as you have the EVMS packages. They're gone > from the Debian archives now, but are still available-- let us know if you > need them. > > Andrew. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Evms-devel mailing list > [email protected] > To subscribe/unsubscribe, please visit: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/evms-devel > --------------070608090501050306040305 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <br> <br> Andrew Schulman wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:[email protected]" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I have a broken old system with 2x 250GB drives, in raid 1, with BBR on it. Since the old system was a very trimmed down gentoo I couldn't boot it on other hardware, so I tried to recover the drives with a fresh debian etch install. But now I can't get it to work. I compiled my own kernel (2.6.15.7), patched it according to the installation instructions, but it ends either of 2 ways: - If I try to activate the volumes I get an error in EVMS, and some notices from devicemapper, saying failed to insert target (bbr) - Or I just can't see any SATA disks at all (system is on a IDE drive so that boots fine) Can anyone tell me which distro/setup still supports EVMS+BBR ? If not, is there another way (without evms) to recover the data from those disks ? It contains my complete photo collection for almost over 10 years, and it would be an emotional disaster to loose all those pictures. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><!----> Distros and kernels that support EVMS are becoming scarce. Sadly, it's the death spiral of EVMS. The last I looked, SystemRescueCd (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page">http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page</a>) supported EVMS. Not sure about BBR, though. IIRC there's a kernel module, dm_bbr, that you have to build and insert in order to use BBR? </pre> </blockquote> When migrating my Gentoo systems away from EVMS to plain old mdadm and/or LVM2 I used older Gentoo Live book CD's that worked just great. They had both EVMS and LVM2 working. <br> <br> You can find a live-cd in your favorite <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors2.xml">Gentoo Mirror</a>'s /releases/ folder.<br> <br> <blockquote cite="mid:[email protected]" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I don't think there's any way to read those drives except by EVMS+BBR. However, I don't see any reason that you shouldn't be able to build a kernel to do that, as long as you have the EVMS packages. They're gone from the Debian archives now, but are still available-- let us know if you need them. Andrew. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july">http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july</a> _______________________________________________ Evms-devel mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> To subscribe/unsubscribe, please visit: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/evms-devel">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/evms-devel</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html> --------------070608090501050306040305-- --===============1927598579020818462== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july --===============1927598579020818462== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Evms-devel mailing list [email protected] To subscribe/unsubscribe, please visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/evms-devel --===============1927598579020818462==--