* Martin B�hr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-22 16:52]: > after a recent power outage my qube doesn't boot anymore. > unfortunately i am not near the machine and have to rely on 3rd party > help to diagnoze the situation.
FWIW, I'm in Vienna next week so I could potentially take a look at it. (In theory I'm there for holidays though, so...) > reportedly the display shows "booting debian" and does nothing. > the machine is not accessible through the network. That suggests that it managed to load the kernel from the boot partition. That's a pretty good sign. > what could keep colo from running the kernel? or cause the kernel to > crash? how can this be diagnosed? netconsole. CoLo has support for netconsole, and Linux too. It's not compiled into the Debian kernel though, but I can compile an image for you. > my friend found someone with a raq2 and will now attempt to boot the > disk from there. but i am not sure if that will help. if the disk > is ok, then booting should work and the problem must be elsewhere in > the qube. but what could it be? Broken hardware... :/ -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
