RE: [cobalt-developers] RaQ-Boot from diskette

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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we run several RaQ4r and RaQ XTR. During the last year we had some hard breakdowns of RaQ4r due to ioverheating, powwer
supply failure and things like that we never had a harddrive failure. And as everybody knows servers onyl fail Friday or Saturday night
and never during regular office working time.

Now i think about an emergency solution to get up a crashed Raq again by putting the harrdrives in a PC with Intel eepro and ALI
chipset and so on and booting this by diskette. The idea is to keep the system up this way until we got a replacement RaQ. After
the replacement arrived the harddrives shall be put in there.
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Unfortunately if you do solve the booting problem (I believe grub has been tried and works recalling from previous posts I've seen, never tried myself) the system will not boot.

On start-up the kernel looks for the LCD device physically on the mbd, and when it doesn't find it, it calls a stop to the boot. There *is* a way round this, but its long, laborious and would make things difficult when you put things back into your RaQ.

What about having a spare PC, with a small HD that boots a Redhat6.2 system, then mounts /home /var from the RaQ HDD in the second IDE channel and starts apache like that. You might need to do some symlinking, etc but it *might* work.

Regards,

Andy
andy@xxxxxxxxxx
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