Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-22 Thread Thomas Damgaard
> > I do not own a serial cable and I don't think that my Thinkpad T42 has > > a serial port. > > > > Not having a backup-plan for getting console access (e.g. either a > monitor/keyboard or a serial cable and a USB/serial dongle) ranks up > there with not having a data backup. Point taken. But I

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:54:59AM +0100, Thomas Damgaard wrote: > On Jan 19, 2008 5:14 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:51:13PM +0100, Thomas Damgaard wrote: > > > > > I do not have any monitor or a keyboard, so I cannot see exactly what > > > is happe

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-20 Thread Thomas Damgaard
On Jan 19, 2008 5:14 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:51:13PM +0100, Thomas Damgaard wrote: > > > I do not have any monitor or a keyboard, so I cannot see exactly what > > is happening, but I have taken the primary hard drive out and put it > > in an USB

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-20 Thread Thomas Damgaard
On Jan 18, 2008 11:25 PM, Александър Л. Димитров <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoth Thomas Damgaard: > > The IDE activity LED does not blink a lot after I turn the power on, > > and I cannot hear the disk head moving. So I am figuring that it fails > > just after GRUB or something. > > GRUB would a

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:51:13PM +0100, Thomas Damgaard wrote: > I do not have any monitor or a keyboard, so I cannot see exactly what > is happening, but I have taken the primary hard drive out and put it > in an USB enclosure, so that I can mount the root filesystem of the > server on my lapt

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-18 Thread Kim Naim Lesmer
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:51:13 +0100 "Thomas Damgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I hope you can help me. My situation is this: > > After upgrading some packages (including kernel upgrade, I think) my > server does not boot. > > The IDE activity LED does not blink a lot after I turn the

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Thomas Damgaard: > The IDE activity LED does not blink a lot after I turn the power on, > and I cannot hear the disk head moving. So I am figuring that it fails > just after GRUB or something. GRUB would actually want to read from the disk. After initial BIOS bootstrapping, the master boot s

Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-18 Thread Thomas Damgaard
Hi I hope you can help me. My situation is this: After upgrading some packages (including kernel upgrade, I think) my server does not boot. The IDE activity LED does not blink a lot after I turn the power on, and I cannot hear the disk head moving. So I am figuring that it fails just after GRUB