won't boot off iso cd

T. Horsnell tsh at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Mon Aug 1 17:12:50 UTC 2005


>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.

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