Richard,
The problem probably is occurring because of the hard drive not being unmounted properly. This can happen if the system is not powered down correctly (reboot through the interface or on the front of the server). When this happens the OS tries to fsck the partitions upon boot up. Fsck is more than likely hanging when trying to check the disk because of a misplaced inode or whatever. If you have another Linux machine or Cobalt server around your facility you will need to remove the hard drive out of the RaQ3i that is not booting and run an fsck on the partitions.
Remove the drive and mount it in another Linux machine. If your Linux machine is setup to boot from a Primary master drive then the device is mounted as /dev/hdaX (/dev/sdaX for SCSI). Linux assigns each hard drive a different hdXX (sdXX) depending upon if the drive is a primary/secondary, master/slave.
primary/master would make the drive /dev/hda or /dev/sda
primary/slave would make the drive /dev/hdb or /dev/sdb
secondary/master would make the drive /dev/hdc or /dev/sdc
secondary/slave would make the drive /dev/hdd or /dev/sdd
When you mount the Cobalt drive in the Linux machine, the machine will recognize the drive as /dev/hdXX because the drive is IDE. After booting into Linux (with the Cobalt drive installed) login and type:
dmesg | more
and you should see the Cobalt drive as a /dev/hdXX device. You will need to run a fsck on that drive by doing the following:
fsck /dev/hdX1
fsck /dev/hdX3
fsck /dev/hdX4
More than likely fsck will prompt you to fix errors and you will type y for each prompt. After doing this you can shutdown the Linux machine and remove the drive and put it back into the Cobalt.
I have done this for a few Cobalt servers already and it works fine.
If I didn't explain something that well in this or you have questions please let me know.
Joey Rutledge
Interliant Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Ishmael [mailto:richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 3:59 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-users] BOOTING...
I purchsed a RaQ3i, about a month ago and have just started to host a couple
of sites.
When I came into work this morning, the LCD display showed "Booting...".
It stayed
like this for a few hours, until I powered the unit off and back on again.
But after 2 hours
it still shows "Booting...". I can not ping, FTP or telnet to the unit.
Any help would be greatly appreciated..
TIA,
Richard
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