Boot failure

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:31:49PM -0400, Identry wrote:
> > Try downloading and booting the livefs environment (I think you need cd1
> > and the livefs cd or just the DVD) and see if you can mount it from
> > that, if not it could be a controller issue. If you can then its
> > probably your OS/kernel but at least you now have access to your
> > data/configs etc etc not to mention you could try extracting the GENERIC
> > kernel from the install media (use the install.sh script in the kernels
> > directory.)
> 
> Well, I am in the data center (2 hr drive, unfortunately)...
> 
> This is an Intel mother board. The front panel light labeled '!' is
> lit. It isn't lit on the working server. I'm googling right now for
> the meaning of this light, but if anyone knows off hand, please let me
> know...

If it won't boot from the MegaRAID, and there is a red exclamation mark
showing on the front panel, I'd say there is a good chance that you've
got a hardware problem...

Maybe try another RAID card, if you have one available?

Roland
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