On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:51:13 +0100 "Thomas Damgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi > > I hope you can help me. My situation is this: > > After upgrading some packages (including kernel upgrade, I think) my > server does not boot. > > The IDE activity LED does not blink a lot after I turn the power on, > and I cannot hear the disk head moving. So I am figuring that it fails > just after GRUB or something. > > I do not have any monitor or a keyboard, so I cannot see exactly what > is happening, but I have taken the primary hard drive out and put it > in an USB enclosure, so that I can mount the root filesystem of the > server on my laptop. > > I can then chroot into the filesystem and do stuff. I have tried > installing an older kernel image package. But this did not help. > > Do you have any suggestions on how I can solve this problem and make > my server boot again? > Thanks. > > Additional informaiton: > My hardware is a VIA mini-itx board with two 250GB ATA drives. The > primary master contains one large ext3 filesystem which is the root > filesystem. I boot from this. > The secondary master contains one large ext3 filesystem that is > encrypted using LUKS/cryptsetup. I use this for storage. > > My /boot/grub/menu.lst is here: > http://thomasdamgaard.dk/p/P1050.html > > When it failed booting it used the kernel version 2.6.18-5-486. > > > -- > Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards > Thomas Damgaard Nielsen > http://thomasdamgaard.dk > Hi Thomas. I don't think you have had a kernel upgrade, because if you had, grub would have added both kernels to your boot menu because of the option: # howmany=all You would have seen both kernel 2.6.18-4-486 and 2.6.18-5-486 in the boot menu, but you don't. Since you are able to mount the drive on your laptop try taking a look in the different logs to see if you can find any useful information. --- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Kim N. Lesmer Programmer and systemadministrator Programmør og systemadministrator Web : www.bitflop.com E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
