Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

[Don Levey]

On 1/29/2014 14:37, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> On Jan 29, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Don Levey <fedora-list at the-leveys.us>
> wrote:
> ...
>> 
>> I was wondering something similar; perhaps there is physical
>> damage?
> 
> This should give a quick idea: smartctl -x /dev/sdX
> 
> This will take longer but fully reads the entire surface of the drive
> and some other tests:
> 
> smartctl -t long /dev/sdX
> 
> ...

I believe I have these tools; I'll try this tonight.

...
> 
>> But now another question arises: Since the (previous) /boot
>> partition was fairly small, is there any reason not to just abandon
>> it, remove /boot from fstab, and install the kernel into the /boot
>> subdirectory of /?
> 
> As long as / isn't on LVM or raid5, I usually recommend this anyway.

This is RAID-1, hardware controlled, so that should work.  Looks like
this will be a little easier; I should be able to afford the 190MB I
would lose.

Thank you again for your help!
 -Don