11.2 first reboot _after_ install

English Install/Boot/Login
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This isn’t the mid-install reboot, this is after I’d been in KDE 4 looking around awhile.

I was trying to set up BIND and named wouldn’t start… I’d disabled IPv6 during installation and hadn’t rebooted yet, so I went to reboot in case that was stuffing it up.

On reboot I got a no boot partition, put one in and hit enter error. Tried again, same error. Put in the install DVD and selected Boot from hard drive when the icy penguin screen came up. No dice. Booted to the DVD again and picked Repair… and it’s telling me that it’s not finding any partition tables. I’ve got the Search for Lost Partitions (is that Indiana Jones #5?) going now.

System is a mobo raid with two 500gb drives in a RAID 0 mirror config. Nvidia controller, says the raid is healthy. System was running 10.3 just fine this morning - during the install I had it save my /home partition and a partition called /backup that I’ve accumulated a few years of stuff on.

Any idea what happened?

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A little more information - My /boot partition is /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb5 depending on what disk it’s on. I’m using GParted from Parted Magic and it’s definitely seeing two hard drives, not a single SATA RAID mirror.

The mobo is an ASUS with an Nvidia chipset, about 2 years old.

While I suppose I can deal with having to split the drives out instead of mirroring them, I’m really hoping to save the info - If I break the mirror set should I be able to (seems like that was one of the purposes of the thing in the first place…)?