RE: [cobalt-users] Re: Mounting partitions on old RAQ550 disk

["Bob Noordam" <mac@xxxxxxxx>]

>
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Bob Noordam
>
> no problem. If you have msn, add bno@xxxxxxxxxxxx it enables
> more direct
> communication.
>
> It is on topic in this sense; if a harddrive fails in a 550
> and possibly
> other models, many times corrupted data gets written to the
> other disk,
> which is not defective, but will end up with a damaged up
> file system. I
> have seen several times, that it leads to a non mountable
> partition (somehow
> /var prefers to die). Sympton: the server starts booting, and
> goes into a
> reboot loop. (last message on the display: startin clock,
> sometimes not even
> that). general advise on the list: os restore. If you take 15
> minutes to
> mount the system in a Suse machine, and manualy mount and repair the
> partitions, you can spare yourself a lot of time and effort.
>
> B.
> -----End Original Message-----
>
> Thanks bob, it worked so I don't need to bother you off-list.
> I was able to mount the xfs partitions and get the files I needed.
> Now while I'm at it, I'd like to check some logs to find out
> why the box
> kept rebooting.
> Any info on which logs I should check ?
>
> Thanks for the help by the way.
>
> -John.
>
>


take a look in /var/log
there should be several older boot logfiles,  boot.log.1.gz, boot.log.2.gz
etc
they may very well contain a clue on what was going on.

Bob.