Re: [cobalt-users] OSRCD error file

[Bruce Timberlake <Bruce.Timberlake@xxxxxxx>]

Gerald Waugh wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 08 June 2002 10:34 pm, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> > Gerald Waugh wrote:
> > > No, I am talking about the PC that is used to perform the restore.
> > > But, then I guess the restore program could not write to the PC hard disk
> > > as it might be some other type filesystem
> >
> > The restore CD doesn't make any assumptions about any other drives
> > besides the CDROM; it doesn't write to any drive.
> 
> There is supposed to be someway that you can get console access to the
> restore process. I just can't remember how it was done

Press Alt+F5 to get a login prompt.  If you login as user 'root' it should
take you straight to the shell prompt.

Press Alt+F8 to monitor BOOTP/DHCP/NFS etc during the process.  This will
tell you if the OSRCD PC/laptop is getting the BOOTP request from the RaQ
being rebuilt, and if it is handing an IP address back to it, etc.  If this
isn't happening, the most common problem is a non-compatible NIC in the
OSRCD laptop/PC.

Also, the OSRCD does need to write some logs, etc, while it works. That's
accomplished via a RAM disk, which is accessible if you log in using the
Alt+F5 listed above.  /tmp and/or /var (I forget which) for the OSRCD is
mounted on a RAM disk.

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Bruce Timberlake
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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