On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:03:27 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > I have a pair of disk based IP 390 running ipso 4.2. One of the appliances > have failed and doesn't bootup. only thing which appear on the console is > bios version number. I can't boot into single user mode. I presume the > file system on flash drive has gone corrupt. Is it possible to take the > flash drive out from faulty unit and insert into the one which is working > then, format and copy the boot files onto the flash. Appreciate if some > one could comment and if this is possible how to do from ipso shell.
An IP-390 always has flash. The following procedure is unsupported and perhaps illegal. 1. Open the unit 2. take out the good flash card. 3. Stick it in a Linux system and use dd to create a verbatim image of the card and all the partitions on it. 4. Buy a new flash and fill it with the copy from step 4 5. Stick the new flash card into the faulty unit. If these steps are too complicated then don't even start. I know it works as I have actually done this but it requires one is familiar with Linux and have the proper hardware to read and write flash cards on a Linux system. However there may be another hardware failure and this might not actually solve the issue. It will only solve an issue with a corrupt/defective flash card. Can you show us the exact output on the console? Hugo. PS: Don't bother to ask for exact commands in private email. -- [email protected] http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/ PGP/GPG? Use: http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/0x58F19981.asc Scanned by Check Point Total Security Gateway. ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [email protected] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [email protected] =================================================
