Re: [cobalt-users] HELP!! Raq 3 won't boot!

[Sam Moats <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok,
  Attach a serial terminal to it setings 115200,8,N,1
When you see Press CTRL-D for normal startup enter your root password.

Next type umount /dev/hda1
Then type this
fsck /dev/hda1 -f;fsck/dev/hda3 -f;fsck /dev/hda4
Answer Y to everything.

When that's done type reboot.

Sam

At 07:29 PM 10/30/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I may already know the answer to this, but I'm hoping I'm wrong.
>
>We've been testing and prepping a Raq 3.  Over the weekend, we left it 
>powered up and live on the network (password protected) in its temporary 
>home to start loading data onto it.  Sometime over the weekend, the office 
>it was in lost power.  The Raq wasn't plugged into a battery backup (I 
>know... dumb.)
>
>Now, when I try to boot it, the LCD display briefly says something I can't 
>see, followed by "loading kernel", followed by "Booting..." and furious 
>disk activity for about 2 minutes.  It never gets to "Starting mail", 
>"Starting DNS" or any of the other normal boot messages. I'm assuming 
>something got trashed when the power went down, but what do I do?  Do I 
>have to get a restore disk and reload the thing from scratch?
>
>Any help (either to the list or my private email address above) greatly 
>appreciated.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Chip 
>
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