Thanks Blair - that looks really interesting.
The servers are 200 miles away so will go down on Monday and see if I
can recover the bootstrap
Colin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BCooper [mailto:dev (at mark) raincitysolutions.com]
> Sent: 28 October 2006 05:09
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:07752] Re: SCSI
>
> Check out this thread:
> http://www.nuonce.net/support/viewthread.php?tid=947
>
> Blair
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Jack [mailto:colin (at mark) mainline.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:59 AM
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:07744] SCSI
>
> 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
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