T. Horsnell wrote:
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Mo, den 01.08.2005 schrieb Anne Ramey um 17:47:
I updated to 2.6.12 kernel without updating something else necessary,
apparently and have hosed my system. The real problem is that it won't
boot of disk. We had 2 64 bit systems have the kernel problem and the
other is back up and running fine. The only disk I can get the second
system to boot is off a 386 iso, which causes problems when I try and do
anything (including chroot /mnt/sysimage) so I can't really rescue the
system. I'd be ok with reinstalling, because I was just doing the
initial system set-up anyway, but I can't figure out how to do that
without being able to boot off a cd. The instructions I've found from
booting from the network start with--boot from an iso cd (not helpful).
Anne
How did you initially install the machine in question? At that time it
booted from your CD but now after a kernel update it does not any
longer? Please provide hardware information, especially about the
controller (IDE / SCSI) and what else might be important.
Alexander
The machine came with fedora 3 (kernel 2.6.10) installed, so I guess it
did boot from 64 bit CD at one point, but I never did it.
Hardware RAID: 8-Ch 3Ware SATA 9500S-8 w/ battery
IDE Devices: hda: QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW242C
SCSI Devices: AMCC 9500S-8 DISK (Direct-Access)
This is the system info for the system that did come back up:
http://daredevil.blast.com/sys/
The only differences between the two are disk size and sw/hw raid.
Daredevil has software raid, the dead one has hw raid.
Anne
When you say it 'wont boot off CD', what sort of error msg do
you get? Is your BIOS config'd to boot from CD as the first choice,
or is the box still actually trying to boot from your raid system?
Cheers,
Terry.
Yes, BIOS is set to boot of CD. It asks me to choose another boot
method or insert bootable media. As I mentioned, it just doesn't work
for 64 bit iso, a friend's 386 iso boots, but doesn't allow me to rescue
the system because of the incompatibility. This same 64 bit iso disk
rescued my other 64 bit system. I even made another copy, thinking it
had somehow turned into a coaster in between systems. No luck.
Anne
