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Re: [cobalt-users] Hard Drive Troubleshooting
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Hard Drive Troubleshooting
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Aug 22 11:20:57 2001
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Rick Kline wrote:
> Does anyone know how to access the Cobalt hard drive as an external drive
> from a Linux machine for troubleshooting purposes? I'm pretty sure I can
> correct my drive issue if I can get access to the drive instead of having to
> "restore" the drive with the OS Restore CD.
Plug it in to an ide connector and a power connector. Boot the system
you've just plugged it in to, checking the bios settings to make sure
it's set to automatically find and setup drives. When the test-bed
machine is running, log in as root and mount the hard disk to a
convenient mount point.
Jeff
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