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12.04 Server only boots in Recovery

Linux/Ubuntu rookie here, so please be patient, and thank you in advance for any help! I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 Server 32-bit on my old Dell Dimension E310. When I boot it up, it takes me to ...
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Troubleshoot broken ZFS

I have one zpool called tank in RaidZ1 with 5x1TB SATA HDDs. I'm using Ubuntu Server 11.10 Oneric, kernel 3.0.0-15-server. Installed ZFS from ppa also I'm using zfs-auto-snapshot. The ZFS file system ...
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Recover Lost MediaWiki

I have a MySQL installation of MediaWiki, hosted with ThrustVPS. Something has become corrupted on the server, and it is in a non-bootable state. I don't have physical access to the machine, but their ...
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My Ubuntu Server filesystem just crashed. Need some help! How to recover files or filesystem?

None of my sites worked, saying that the /tmp/ folder was not writeable. I ssh-ed into the server, and indeed, everyting was read only. I restarted with the fsck flag, and now I get a grub error. ...
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Did I lose my RAID again?

A little history: 2 years ago I was really excited to find out that mdadm is so powerful that it even can reshape arrays, so you can start with a smaller array and then grow it as you need. I've ...