[Sussex] Centos 6 64bit no longer bootable

[Brendan Whelan]

Paul, Dave, thanks for you responses. The system was cool at the time I 
got the problem. I will try to run "smartctl -a /dev/sda " later today. 
Brendan

On 30/09/2013 19:21, Dave Garry wrote:
> I was going to say something similar to what Paul said - you mentioned
> being able to boot from DVD into rescue mode - from there you can
> run this to examine the smart data:
>
> smartctl -a /dev/sda
>
> Does this show a healthy, or failing drive ?
>
> Dave
>
> On 30/09/13 16:46, Paul Willis wrote:
>> Do you have a disk utility that will read the SMART data for your hard
>> disk? Maybe you could find a text based way of reading it (to use from
>> your live dvd if it doesn't have something handy built in). Was the
>> machine hot when it died?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 30 September 2013 11:31, Brendan Whelan <b_whelan at mistral.co.uk> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Jan, John,  Thanks for your responses. The server is a Dell 
>>> PowerEdge
>>> SC440 and is definitely a 64bit machine. I installed Centos 6.3 and 
>>> updated
>>> to 6.4 and the system then ran for a couple of weeks. The only 
>>> recent system
>>> change I made was to change the login background PNG image. I have 
>>> put the
>>> disk that won't boot on one side and am rebuilding the system on a 
>>> different
>>> drive but in the same server. When that is complete I will re-change 
>>> the
>>> background PNG and see if that cause the problem.
>>> Brendan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 29/09/2013 11:31, Jan Henkins wrote:
>>>> Hello Brendan,
>>>>
>>>> On 27/09/13 15:54, Brendan Whelan wrote:
>>>>> I have just built a Centos 6.4 64-bit system on a, relatively old, 
>>>>> Dell
>>>>> server. Having got through the installation of the operating 
>>>>> system and
>>>>> configured our package, I changed the default screen backgrounds 
>>>>> to those
>>>>> used on other servers. I logged out but the screen just ( from 
>>>>> memory)
>>>>> showed a white line and the word "Centos". I therefore powered off 
>>>>> and back
>>>>> on again but now get the message "ata_id DHIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for
>>>>> /dev/sda" it then goes into a kernel panic. Searching on the Internet
>>>>> indicates that this could be a disk controller issue. However I 
>>>>> can boot,
>>>>> using a DVD, into recovery mode and, for example, check that the png
>>>>> background files are in place. ( Just in case there was a bad 
>>>>> connection I
>>>>> re-bedded cables, boards, etc. )
>>>>
>>>> Could you please let us know the model of the server?
>>>>
>>>>> Is it likely to be a hardware issue and are there any tests that I 
>>>>> can
>>>>> perform? As it is a new installation I am not concerned about the 
>>>>> data or
>>>>> files but would like to get the system working.
>>>>
>>>> Try a minimal CentOS 5.9 installation, and see if that works. Once you
>>>> have that tested and we know the outcome, we can have a 
>>>> head-scratch and
>>>> figure out some possible next steps.
>>>>
>>>
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