In my one experience restoring a Qube3, it failed to start the first time because I had two cdroms in my pc. I unplugged one of them and it went like a champ. I used the orginal factory restore CD and upgraded the OS later.
Phil L. 253-405-2816 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerald Waugh Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 5:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Qube restore question On Friday 13 September 2002 20:50, Jon Hutchins wrote: > I downloaded and burned the business version of the > qube software to disk, booted off my laptop and > monitored it with another laptop. It seems that when > it tries to mount the drive it can't because it is > read only. Then the unit reboots, loads up to the > point where it says "First stage kernel: Decompressing > - done." and then reboots (and repeats). One other > note I should throw in is I originally took the hard > drive out of the box, fdisked it in dos to delete the > partition and create a new (dos) one, and formatted > it. This was the only way I was able to make the > device not boot the old comcast business file system. > Put it in a Linux system run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx x being b, c, or d (however boot found it) Then try the restore. There must be something about it OSRCD does not like no guarantees, no warranties, but worth a try.... Gerald -- http://frontstreetnetworks.com http://raqware.com 229 Front Street, Ste C, New Haven, CT 06513-3203 Phone: 203-785-0699 _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
