The following shows how to load the Rescue System and mount the file system.

To load the rescue system, we first select the PXE boot configuration in the server panel ->

Then we select the Rescue System as Group and the Rescue System of your choice as PXE boot.

We also generate a password using the cube icon and check the eMail section to send us the password via mail.

In our example we use Grml 2021.07:

Now the server needs to be restarted via the power off icon.

Software RAID - Mount filesystem

When the rescue system has been loaded, we can mount our filesystem in the panel via VNC.

With the following command we can display our devices first:

fdisk -l

In our example a software RAID 1 is configured, so our output is accordingly:

root@grml ~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 447,13 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
Disk model: SAMSUNG MZ7LH480
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 31FC886C-DB65-47B0-B695-F588708037C1

Device        Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sdb1      2048      4095      2048     1M BIOS boot
/dev/sdb2      4096   2099199   2095104  1023M Linux RAID
/dev/sdb3   2099200  35653631  33554432    16G Linux RAID
/dev/sdb4  35653632 937701375 902047744 430,1G Linux RAID


Disk /dev/sda: 447,13 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
Disk model: SAMSUNG MZ7LH480
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: E4A490FD-2513-417F-A5F1-EBA3D5C0ED1C

Device        Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1      2048      4095      2048     1M BIOS boot
/dev/sda2      4096   2099199   2095104  1023M Linux RAID
/dev/sda3   2099200  35653631  33554432    16G Linux RAID
/dev/sda4  35653632 937701375 902047744 430,1G Linux RAID


Disk /dev/loop0: 720,45 MiB, 755445760 bytes, 1475480 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/md0: 430 GiB, 461713178624 bytes, 901783552 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Important here is the underline marked area. We see that /dev/sdb4 is our file system here.

For a software RAID we have to assemble the RAID before:

mdadm --assemble --run /dev/md0 /dev/sdb4

Now we can mount the filesystem:

mount -a /dev/md0 /mnt

We can now find the filesystem under /mnt

Load rescue & mount file system

Software RAID - Mount filesystem