Have you reboot again since you steps below?
Blair
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
[mailto:kenmarcus (at mark) precisionweb.net]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 2:52 PM
To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Subject: [coba-e:07747] Re: SCSI
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Colin Jack wrote:
>
>> Hi Blues,
>>
>> We have had a very uncomfortable day and would appreciate some
>> help/ideas from those more knowledgeable than me!
>>
>> We had a server with Brian's 4.3 ISO installed and running happily. We
>> have rebooted the server since install a number of times without
>> incident and yum updated regularly.
>>
>> Then we recently had a yum update stall on us and
>>
>> killall yum_install
>> killall yum
>>
>> This sent the server (which was working up until then) into a sulk.
>> We rebooted and it wouldn't go past the LILO
>>
>> Booted a Knoppix disk and tried to mount but would only see /boot
>>
>> We have an identical (hardwarewise) back up server without an OS, so
>> installed 4.5, which appeared to install cleanly but on reboot did the
>> same as the sick server. Tried the 4.6 ISO and the 4.3 ISO .... with the
>> same result. Stopped at the LILO screen.
>>
>> The guy working on it is pretty knowledgeable (more so than me) but
>> couldn't resolve the problem.
>>
>> We have restored to another lower spec machine (Dell) and that is
>> running - albeit very slowly.
>>
>> I need to get the main servers running, but am short on ideas.
>>
>> Basic spec.
>>
>> Intel mainboard
>> 1 x Xeon
>> 2Gb RAM
>> Intel SCSI
>> 2 x 72Gb HDD (software mirror)
>>
>> Anybody any ideas?
>>
>> many thanks
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>
> Hi,
>
> There was a time when my lilo failed on my redhat 7.x server
> after a reboot.
>
> So I overwrote it with grub and it works.
>
> so .. 2 cents try grub.
>
>
> Cheers
> patrick
>
I had that on a P4 with software Raid Sata drives. It got stuck on Grub,
wnated to boot from the CD. I asume it did not see the drives.
The way I fixed it was:
1. booted up using Brian install disk,
2. then *carefully* selected the rescue mode,
3. followed the chroot instructions that appear
4. typed /sbin/lilo -v
5. logged out and took out the CD
Then it booted normally.
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Ken Marcus
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
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