Matthew Closson wrote:
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?
Didn't think of this. A bit of panic is never good, I know.
> Try throwing the
drive in another box for starters.
That's what I thought, but it's not easy: SCSI 320 and I have no spare
SCSI-box after all.
> There is no need to reinstall the OS
if the board or memory are shot. What kind of hardware as well?
Proliant ML-350 G4p
And, I forgot, 3.8.
Thanks for the pointer ! I'll start with a Live-CD for the hardware side.
Uwe
