[techtalk] bare metal recovery nightmare

[Brian Sweeney]

Hmmm..should've seen this sooner.  Looks like I'm having permissions issues.
Must've dropped a -p flag somewhere.  I changed all the /bin, /sbin, and
/etc permissions appropriately.  Now it boots and I get the following
(RedHat stuff):

(lots of services start ok; sendmail complains 'cause of a permission
problem.  I'll fix that later.)
Starting SMB services:	OK
Starting NMB services:	OK
Starting local

...and it just sits there.  The / fs hard drive seems active, but nothing
else happens.

*ARGH*

I *KNOW* I'm missing something simple.  I'm just really tired and really
frustrated and what should've been a relatively easy system restore (all the
user data was on a different partition, just need /) has turned into an 8
hour fiasco for various reasons.

Thanks in advance,
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org
> [mailto:techtalk-admin at linuxchix.org]On Behalf Of Brian Sweeney
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:20 AM
> To: Techtalk at Linuxchix. Org
> Subject: [techtalk] bare metal recovery nightmare
>
>
> 'lo all-
>
> K', so it's not quite bare-metal, but it's close enough.  Lost the root fs
> on a production server I've got.  No prob, have it backed up to tape, but
> for various reasons can't get it right over.  Had to copy several times
> first; scp -rp and cp -Rpv.  Now I'm getting lots of complaints...most
> obvious was "mount: only root can do that"; looked like it was related to
> /proc.
>
> This was really just root fs stuff /var and /usr, /home and
> others were all
> on other partitions.  Don't know why it's upset.
>
> Sorry to be curt; been working on this for hours and I'm exhausted.
>
> Suggestions?  Thanks.
>
> -Brian
>
>
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