[cobalt-users] Raq4r OS restore after hardware change

["Mark Kendall" <wally@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The story....

I bought a Raq4r on ebay, great price and really happy to get a what appears
to be a brand new
unit (boxed, sealed, restore disk, etc).

Then a flash of lightning later both onboard NIC's fried (surge protected
power supply BUT the
router directed the surge!). :(

Sourced new used MB and replaced. Powered up all came up fine :)

Then the system status monitor started flashing but all inside seemed fine.
Followed previous
threads and solutions to no avail, and decided to do an OS Restore.

Sourced a Netgear 310 NIC for an old stripped down (cd, graphics, hdd) P2
350 and attempted OS
restore using latest ISO from the Sun site (960-RAQ4R101BU.iso.gz).

All seemed well, the raq booted, installed RPMS etc, rebooted, checked disk,
set up web service
ran MFG tests and then hung.... the LCD message showing was:

	lease150.mfg.cob
	10.0.0.150

Searched the archives and found the post:
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2001-November/059878.html

Tried another machine (P2 266, again stripped bare) and the same result. :(

Next tries using the OS restore that came in the box with the raq4r. This
time, the restore only
got as far as the reboot and then entered a reboot cycle! as described in:
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-developers/2002-April/036519.html

I have definitely got a raq4r and it was functioning as such immediatly
before the restore.

So, is it a serial number issue? shall I reset the CMOS? Said to be never
done at:
http://www.hockin.org/~thockin/cobalt-hack-faq.html

Has anybody got a clue on what I should do next?

Many thanks,

Mark