[RAS] nebka down

[Thomas Krichel]

  Ruggieri, Timothy writes

> I was out sick most of last week and missed the excitement. 

  Oh, you poor thing.

> I can go take a look at Nebka today (Monday).  I don't know what I
> can do beyond fscking and rebooting again though.

  disk /dev/sda 80G needs to be replaced by the 140G disk.

  1. Boot into single user mode.
  2. Mount root disk read-only

mount -o ro,remount /dev/sda1 

  3. Check disk with badblock check
  
e2fsck -c -y /dev/sda1

  4. reboot into single use
  5. make sure sdb1 is mounted as /vol
  6. rsync to /vol

 rsync -va --exclude /vol --exclude /proc --exclude /sys / /vol

  7. install grub

grub-install --root-directory /vol/boot/grub /dev/sdb1

  8. shutdown machine, exchange disk sda and sdb.

  9. fiddle with bios so that it boots from what was sdb, now sda.

  Good luck!

 
  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
  phone: +7 383 330 6813                       skype: thomaskrichel



> 
> Tim
> 
> -- 
> 
> Timothy Ruggieri
> Computer Support Consultant
> CLAS Dean's Office
> University of Connecticut
> timothy.ruggieri at uconn.edu
> (860) 486-0713
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ras-run-bounces at lists.openlib.org
> [mailto:ras-run-bounces at lists.openlib.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Krichel
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 4:02 AM
> To: Zimmermann, Christian
> Cc: RAS-RUN
> Subject: Re: [RAS] nebka down
> 
> 
>   Christian Zimmermann writes
> 
> > And once more a Saturday at 7:37.
>   
>   I guess it is a setback for badblock theorists.
> 
> > I am *not* going to campus this week-end. I could not work on the
> machine 
> > yesterday, as it continually had a load above 1.
> 
>   My commiserations!
> 
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>   Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>                                 RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
>   phone: +7 383 330 6813                       skype: thomaskrichel
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  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
  phone: +7 383 330 6813                       skype: thomaskrichel