Re: [cobalt-users] Update failure installing Qube3-ml-Update-4.0.pkg

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 23 September 2002 21:53, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> The Cobalt Qube3, used as a mail server by the local school district,
> failed to reboot after installing the Qube3-ml-Update-4.0.pkg.
>
> I have turned on the console port and can see that the kernel verification
> fails after it is uncompressed!  There were two .pkgsave files in /boot.  I
> assumed that they were backups of the original linux.gz and System.map. 
> When those are used to boot the system, the boot is fairly successful, but
> the eth0 and eth1 devices are not recognized.
>
> Too my mind, the best way forward would be to reinstall the package.  I
> have a second disk drive that was created using the recovery CD.  I can use
> FTP to copy files to this drive and have downloaded the package.  I can
> copy the package to the original drive.  However, I can not use the
> administrative interface to install the package on the original drive
> because the ethernet devices do not work.  I can issue commands from the
> console.
>
> After searching the Sun/Cobalt web site and using Google I could not find
> any useful information.  I tried calling for paid support, but discovered,
> that contrary to the answering message, it shuts down at 6 PM.
>
> I am hoping someone can give me some advice so that we can get the mail
> server back in service.
>
Can you execute dmesg
See if you can see where the boot process attempts to detect the ethernet 
interfaces.
Execute ifconfig and see what you get.
maybe try to execute ifup eth0

Gerald
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