RE: [cobalt-developers] Qube restore question

["Phil Lewis" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my one experience restoring a Qube3, it failed to start the first time
because I had two cdroms in my pc.  I unplugged one of them and it went like
a champ.  I used the orginal factory restore CD and upgraded the OS later.

Phil L.
253-405-2816

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gerald
Waugh
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 5:25 PM
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Qube restore question


On Friday 13 September 2002 20:50, Jon Hutchins wrote:
> I downloaded and burned the business version of the
> qube software to disk, booted off my laptop and
> monitored it with another laptop.  It seems that when
> it tries to mount the drive it can't because it is
> read only.  Then the unit reboots, loads up to the
> point where it says "First stage kernel: Decompressing
> - done." and then reboots (and repeats).  One other
> note I should throw in is I originally took the hard
> drive out of the box, fdisked it in dos to delete the
> partition and create a new (dos) one, and formatted
> it.  This was the only way I was able to make the
> device not boot the old comcast business file system.
>

Put it in a Linux system
run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx
x being b, c, or d (however boot found it)
Then try the restore.
There must be something about it OSRCD does not like

no guarantees, no warranties, but worth a try....

Gerald
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