Re: [cobalt-users] Resurrecting a dead cobalt

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> Hi list,
>
> One of my RaQ3s has died - ie it went down for a reboot, but has been
> hanging at "Booting" ever since.  I've got the instructions on the Cobalt
> knowledge base telling me to connect with a laptop and null modem cable,
and
> the unmount and fsk all the partitions.  The only problem is, I can't work
> out how to connect to the RaQ - I obviously can't telnet to it, as the
boot
> process hasn't got that far, and I've tried using Hyperterminal, but
without
> any success....
>
> Can anyone advise?

    Take the disk out of the server and install it in another computer that
has only a 3 1/2 floppy.  Get a single disk linux like.....
http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html
or
http://trinux.sourceforge.net/

and make the disk(s) and boot it up and make changes to the disk as
necessary....  I would suggest you look at the /boot directory

[admin admin]$ ls /boot/
System.map
vmlinux.gz

make sure they are there....  look for errors in the mesage files too....
Should be some good stuff

Zeffie
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