[Sussex] The torment

[David Chapman]

On Monday 29 March 2004 18:16, Steve Dobson wrote:
> David
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:55:28PM +0100, David Chapman wrote:
> > I have been forced to use Windows latley because of a hardware failure.
> > Hard drives going off line and boot failures because grub can't find the
> > HD with Linux on it.
>
> I've had boot problems because of installing new kernels and not updating
> the MBR correctly :-( - can't blame the system it was me !!!
>
> > This is why I never made it to the Lug moot last week.
> > Busy pulling my hair out !
>
> But if you had come along I (and Geoff, and others I'm sure) would have
> told you how to re-install your MBR - it's not that hard with a rescue
> CD/Floppy.
Not an MBR problem.
The Linux HD was disconnecting from the scsi bus.
>
> > With a Mepis live CD, KDat and a DLT drive I was able to save all my data
> > in my home partion.
> > Which I thought was a wonderfull demonstration of the power and
> > flexability of Linux
>
> Saving data into the /home partition???
I wanted a more recient backup of my /home just in case.
> You didn't just reinstall the 
> system to fix a MGR problem did you.
No I didnt
> Now you really should have come along 
> to the meetings - they could save you hours and hours of re-installation
> time.
>
> <mode speak-like="yoda" mouth-shape="Very big grin">
>   Careless of operation has young David been to lose data.
I havn't YET
>
>   System taken to meeting should have.
Being a retired Windows PDC quad Xeon server It's a bit big.
>   Maybe then this MBR re-install 
>   we could.
>
>   To you all a lesson this be - much knowledge exists in the LUGMoot of the
>   Sussex.
> </mode>
>
> > Anyway I'm back havin had to install another scsi card.
> > That makes 5 scsi channels now, 3 onboard and 1x 2 channel LSi card.
>
> Why some many SCSI cards?  How many devices have you hanging of that
> system?
3 scsi channels are onboard.
1x narrow
2x lvd

I added another card because I thought the onboard scsi channel the HD's are 
on might be faulty
>
> Hope you're having as much fun as me.  I've just re-configured all the
> addresses in my network and re-vamped my firewall to cope.  I now have a
> proper DMZ - nicely firewalled and running the company WWW, e-mail and DNS
> servers (okay they're all on the same box).
>
> Steve
>
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