On Mon, 29 May 2006, Uwe Dippel wrote:
I have tried the archives and google, but didn't find any good pointer
(maybe a problem of keywords ?):
After some 20 cycles of power outage / restore - that is some twenty
crashes - a database server of mine doesn't reboot any longer. It gets
stuck at
booting hd0a:/bsd 4804448+939504 [52+247296+228813] entry point at
0x100120
I tried bsd.old and bsd.rd
All with a similar result (similar: other numbers).
Now I wonder what is best recommended to get this production box back at
work ? I hope to avoid a complete re-install ... .
Someone will flame me for backup. Alas, the icing on the cake is, that the
backup was scheduled exactly during those outage cycles and is spoiled as
well. I might dig out the backup of one week ago, but then, the data of
the database are not exactly fresh.
Thanks for any suggestion,
Uwe
What makes you think it is not a hardware problem? Try throwing the drive
in another box for starters. There is no need to reinstall the OS if the
board or memory are shot. What kind of hardware as well?
-Matt-
