Re: [cobalt-users] Raq550 resynchronizing and rebooting

["Ken Marcus -Precision Web Hosting" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John D Gorena" <Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Cobalt-Users List" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 9:50 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Raq550 resynchronizing and rebooting


> Is there a fix for the Raq550 that keeps it from resynchronizing and
rebooting.
> It seems to get almost complete and then it reboots and starts over from
1%.  I
> rebooted earlier today and the problem started.  There had not been any
updates
> for a few weeks.  All was working fine.  Any solutions?
>
>

John,

Make sure you have a backup. I'm not an expert. Use as your own risk.

http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2003-June/092381.html

# The steps
cd /tmp
#one line below
wget
ftp://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/products/raq550/RPMS/kernel-2.4.16C12_V-1.i386.
rpm
#one line below
wget
ftp://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/products/raq550/RPMS/kernel-headers-2.4.16C12_V
-1.i386.rpm
#one line below
wget
ftp://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/products/raq550/RPMS/bwmgmt-1.0.0_2.4.16C12_V-1
.i386.rpm

rpm --install --force kernel-2.4.16C12_V-1.i386.rpm
rpm --install --force kernel-headers-2.4.16C12_V-1.i386.rpm
rpm --install --force bwmgmt-1.0.0_2.4.16C12_V-1.i386.rpm
/sbin/reboot

The info above  worked for me. It will revert your kernel back a couple
versions. After the reboot one drive will be bad. If you reboot again it
will come up as good.

My suggestion would be to note which drive it says is bad and replace it.
Then bring the kernel back up to date. That's what I plan.

If you have already applied the latest kernel package, then, as far as I
know, you will need to extract the RPMs from the newer kernel package to
bring it back up to date. I saw a post by Michael Stauber on how to extract
the RPMs.


wget
http://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/packages/raq550/all/the-actual-package-name.pk
g
/usr/bin/gpg --output filename.tar.gz --decrypt RaQ550-*.pkg
 tar xzvpf filename.tar.gz
cd RPMS
rpm --install --force the-actual-rpm-name.rpm
rpm --install --force the-actual-rpm-name.rpm
rpm --install --force the-actual-rpm-name.rpm
/sbin/reboot

Make sure you have a backup. I'm not an expert. Use as your own risk.

If someone has an easier way to do this, please let me know.

Ken Marcus
Precision Web Hosting
ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.precisionweb.net