Re: [cobalt-users] BOOTING PROBLEM ON RAQ3i

[Mat Kovach <mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 04:43:20PM -0800, Jeff Lasman wrote:
: At 01:33 PM 3/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
: 
: >Again no results at all other then when booting from ROM it locked on loading
: >lernal for about an hour before i shut it down.

Hook up to the serial port and see what the log files are saying.  It may 
just need a manual fsck.  I have seen this a few times when the RaQs have had
inproper shutdown, specially on heavily loaded systems. 
 
: Sounds like a disastrous hardware failure.  Possibly the hard disk.
: 
: >  I have roughly 150 domains on this unit. yes i have a good backup and even a
: >second raq3i i can rebuild on if i have to...   what i am wondering is is 
: >there a
: >method to reboot it just so i can get rear consile access or remote access 
: >from a
: >pc on the network so i can go in and see if the HD failed or not and 
: >possibly fix
: >any corrupted files that may be keeping it from booting.
: 
: You can move the drive to any other Linux system, mount it, and look at the 
: files.

Yep, that works great, even to just fix the file system and get it working. 

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Mat Kovach                                      mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cleveland Linux User Group                       http://cleveland.lug.net