Here is the situation as it is now:
1. Power outage and upon restart had 1 drive marked bad by the RAID controller (HP).
2. Replaced the drive only to have the rebuild stop at Interum Rebuild
3. Opened ticket with HP. They had me upgrade the firmware of the controller (and everything else)
4. Rebuild completed, however on reboot I get a "PANIC: Failed to find HD boot partition" message
5. When I try a rebuild installation with ESX it tells me the partition map is invalid that LILO expects a different geometry than what is presented.
I do not have adequate backups of the VMDK's. Completely unexcusable, however this is a valuable system and I need the data back.
I have made a forensics image of the logical unit as a VMDK and have that to work with, so as not to damage the original filesystem.
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I did boot the recovery disk you provided. The following is the output from fdisk -l:
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: invalid flag 0xb2b2 of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite)
Disk /dev/sda: 181.9 GB, 181926743040 bytes
64 heads, 32 cylinders/track, 173498 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk Identifier: 0x87693fa7
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 5 750 763904 5 Extended
/dev/sda2 751 4845 4193280 6 FAT16
/dev/sda3 4846 173499 172701555 fb VMware VMFS
/dev/sda4 * 1 4 4080 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 ? 1463899 2927793 1499027801 b2 Unknown
Partition table entries are not in disk order
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When I try vmfs-fuse:
vmfs-fuse /dev/sda3 /mnt
VMFS FSInfo: invalid magic number 0xb2b2b2b2
VMFS: Unable to read FS Information
Unable to open filesystem
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Please help.
Thank you
