Marc
On 8/1/05, Anne Ramey <anner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
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