Can't reboot server - not repsonding

[phreaq]

I seem to be spinning my wheels, so I may just rebuild.

I'll copy the files to another drive, so I can easily edit the fstab, , etc.

anything else I should do? (best practices for re-installs)

[bigfoot65]

Ideally I would say to follow the HDA OS Migration Guide but most of it requires access to the HDA

You might be able to use a Live CD to get some info though.

Sorry I am not more help. The intent was to fix vs rebuild, but seems it's a hard fought battle on this one.

[phreaq]

the pain just doesn't end

I unplugged all my external hard drives, and reinstalled amahi 7, from the boot cd.

it loads all good, so I start following the wiki on adding drives (really just doing hda-diskmount and editing fstab) since these drives were part of the old system, with data.

after rebooting between drives inserts, it's booting to emergency mode.

even if I disconnect all external drives, it goes to the emergency mode.

what does that mean?

[bigfoot65]

Sounds like you have a bad drive.

[phreaq]

it looks like 2 of 11 drives are marked as bad. they're ntfs drives so I'm checking them thru a Windows machine now.

Will I need to reinstall Amahi now that it goes into emergency mode (even with no external drives attached)?

[bigfoot65]

Did you remove them from /etc/fstab?

[phreaq]

whew, I did not remove them, and now its fine. thanks!

hopefully there's light at the end of this tunnel.

[bigfoot65]

Great to hear. To bad you didn't start on this path before reinstall. Would have made things so much easier for you.