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Re: [cobalt-users] Hard Drive Troubleshooting



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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