[RAS] nebka down

[Christian Zimmermann]

I got the BIOS and RAID facility to recognize the drive swap. Good.

But it does not start grub. Bad.

Note that I switched / and /vol in fstab. But that is read after grub, 
right?


doing the rsync to fill the new disk, I noticed that adrepec is housing a 
lot of pdf files. That seems a waste, especially as this account is 
replicated on all machines.

Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063
Storrs, CT 06269-1063
http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/   christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Christian Zimmermann wrote:

> I am on it right now.
>
> Christian Zimmermann                                     FIGUGEGL!
> Department of Economics
> University of Connecticut
> 341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063
> Storrs, CT 06269-1063
> http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/   christian.zimmermann at uconn.edu
> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html
>
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:
>
>>
>>  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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