<snip>
we run several RaQ4r and RaQ XTR. During the last year we had some hard breakdowns of 
RaQ4r due to ioverheating, powwer
supply failure and things like that we never had a harddrive failure. And as everybody 
knows servers onyl fail Friday or Saturday night
and never during regular office working time.

Now i think about an emergency solution to get up a crashed Raq again by putting the 
harrdrives in a PC with Intel eepro and ALI
chipset and so on and booting this by diskette. The idea is to keep the system up this 
way until we got a replacement RaQ. After
the replacement arrived the harddrives shall be put in there.
</snip>

Unfortunately if you do solve the booting problem (I believe grub has been tried and 
works recalling from previous posts I've seen, never tried myself) the system will not 
boot.

On start-up the kernel looks for the LCD device physically on the mbd, and when it 
doesn't find it, it calls a stop to the boot. There *is* a way round this, but its 
long, laborious and would make things difficult when you put things back into your RaQ.

What about having a spare PC, with a small HD that boots a Redhat6.2 system, then 
mounts /home /var from the RaQ HDD in the second IDE channel and starts apache like 
that. You might need to do some symlinking, etc but it *might* work.

Regards,

Andy
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