Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 09:05 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 22:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 July 2010 10:18:33 Dale wrote:
> > > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > > When done, reboot as normal and see if the machine boots up properly.
> > > 
> > > And I would stand guard to make sure housekeeping doesn't come around.
> > > ;-)  Cutting power during all this wold not be good.
> > 
> > Here in Africa we use pythons for that.
> > 
> > Real genuine live 10 foot snakes. In a terrarium of course.
> > 
> > Trust me, it takes about 30 seconds after the first housekeeping person sees 
> > it until none of them goes anywhere near your stuff.
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
> I like the idea of pythons, as they swallow the prey whole its much less
> messy than the redback spiders suggested for use here in West Oz ...
> someone would have to clean up the bodies in the morning.
> 
> Must be a coincidence, didnt update the MBR after installing grub and
> failed to boot this morning - though the signs are more like disk
> failure - even the live CD isnt helping :(
> 
> Another job for tonight when I get home.
> 
> BillK
> 

Fixed it - was grub after all - it renumbered my drives (0 and 1
swapped :(

Complicated because this was one of the early sata boards with a fake
raid chip to handle the sata while the old IDE drives were on the normal
bus.

Further complicated by the bios and raidchip changing drive assignments
depending on which drive/cd/floppy you booted from (i.e., what grub sees
as the drive numbers changes when the real OS is booted).  I forgot what
hoops I had to jump through to get this going originally.

Might be time for a new setup - amd athlon 2500+ are not so cool these
days :)

BillK