Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 2 loses IP, and reboots over and over...

["David C. Ashworth" <dave@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Hawke,

I haven't been following all of the messages in this thread but can you not
use the Cobalt restore cd to do a network boot.  and 'hack in' that way, you
seem to know your way around Unix.

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: Hawke Robinson <hawke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 05:44
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 2 loses IP, and reboots over and over...


> Thanks. I'm not sure how old they are, less than a year certainly.  This
> box has been runing for at least six months on line.  Our environment is
> fully conditioned power, and raied floord with proper cooling.
> The 50+ other servers in there are not reporting any outages or
> problems.
> I have already tried many variations of isolating the problem. I've
> tried no cables, different caless, hubs etc. THe box is no longer in the
> server room. Nor will I allow any of the other divisions to install any
> of the 25 that were going to be installed for all the B2B links to
> client sites.
> My guess has been that the HD has corrupted significantly enough (for
> whatever reason), and that it's booting into single user mode.  On
> normal unix and linu boxes this would happen.  Then at thecommand line
> you repair whatever damage there is, and reboot, and all is well. Of
> course with the Qube 2 there is no way to do this.
> Does the qube 2 have the capability of booting into single use mode at
> all?
> So the box is completely useless to us at this point, so I removed the
> HD and hooked it up to another Linux box. checked it's partitions, and
> it shows that they are in vary bad condition indeed.  I also ran fsck
> and recovered a lot of errors, just to get it so that ir will boot to
> the 0.0.0.0 prompt.
> Any suggestions?
> -Hawke
>
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