RE: [cobalt-users] RaQ2 - www service is broken

["Lester Wilson" <lester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I'm no expert but have some experience with RAQ2,3,4 + 550, that we run.

OS Restore'ed on a broken machine, and the restore gets stuck in a loop during start-up.
After burning a  new CD and checking that the CD was good by restoring another system, I finally fixed the problem system by formatting the HD using the Seagate (it was a Seagate drive) format utility and fdisk. I connected the drive to a spare pc and fdisked all the partitions to remove them, then used the Seagate utility, It writes zero's to the whole of the drive, the modern equivalent of low level format. Then reinstalled the drive the RAQ and restored from the CD. When doing the restore on the formatted and wiped HD, it went smoothly, with no hiccups.

Just an idea based on my experience, but it may save you hours of frustration.

Lester

>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gerald Waugh
>Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 1:01 AM
>To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ2 - www service is broken
>
>
>On Friday 18 April 2003 18:15, Oger wrote:
>> > ??  I've done LOTS of restores with nothing but a 10mb hub... 
>it doesn't
>> > care, just takes a lot longer. :)
>>
>> The restore went GREAT until it came time to reboot and now it gets stuck
>> in a loop where the LCD says "Starting Up", then displays some giberish,
>> then reboots and the cycle repeats.  That behavior is described here:
>> http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2001-May/045634.html
>>
>> Has anybody done a restore to a machine with a non-standard sized drive
>> (this one is 12GB vs standard(?) 4GB)   I am curious if that may have
>> something to do with it.
>>
>> Thank you, list, for your continued help.   I really hope I'll be
>> knowledgable enough to offer this kind of support to you guys someday!
>>
>
>Connect to the console serial port and see what it says.
>
>Gerald
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