[NBLUG/talk] Ack Down

Zack Gold zzatkin at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 18:54:17 PDT 2012


Dude... you're Gandalf... use your magical staff...

On a more serious note, did you try going further forward with just the
live CD?

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:12 PM, <gandalf at sonic.net> wrote:

> Ok, I just got the server to boot by disconnecting one of the raid drives
> (what is that raid 1, yeah think that's it). So the boot config is messed
> up on the other drive I guess. So how do I copy the config from the one
> drive to the other? Or perhaps make the the other drive dominant? Arggg.
> Good news is it works, bad news is I want to fix it.
>
> (imagine a cute or dirty tagline here)
>
>  On Fri 30/03/12  5:48 PM , gandalf at sonic.net sent:
> > I moved our server across the room. I as it didn't have a keyboard or
> mouse
> > connected I just did a power off. I went to boot it back up and it
> wouldn't
> > start. After numerous plug testing and outlet testing I opened up the
> power
> > supply and found an exploded cap. HSC, back, install new power supply.
> Now
> > it won't boot. It will boot from CD, pulled up Knoppix, but I'm thinking
> of
> > downloading a newer version (using 3.8 something). Downloaded Rescatux
> and
> > gave it a try but it failed and then I was unable to find the log file
> > telling me why. Tried to pull some files off it with Knoppix using a USB
> > drive and had no luck at least yet. It's behaving oddly when I try to
> > unmount the thumbdrives.
> > The good point is the files all look to be there. This is a Debian Sarge
> > 3.1 64 bit system. I really should upgrade it and change it over to
> CentOS
> > which is more familiar. It has a mirrored raid with dual SATA 10k 74g
> > raptors. It's also got a backup drive and hot swap (although I never got
> > that to work) removable drive.
> > I'm still early in the trying thing phase, but the problem is I have to
> > have this thing operational (self booting) by Sunday. I have
> authorization
> > for paid assistance if this reaches pulling hair out proportions.
> > I figure the boot sector is hosed. I think I used to have a floppy with
> > grub on it. I seem to remember I could even make a boot disk that would
> > load grub or that other one, but it's been years and we just moved from
> our
> > old office and I can't find anything looking like that.
> > I'm going to try disconnecting one of the Raid drives and booting, and
> then
> > if that doesn't work, do the same with the other one. I think they booth
> > have boot sectors, but really I don't remember. I can get into both
> drives
> > fine under Knoppix.
> > (imagine a cute or dirty tagline here)
> >
> >
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