it wasn't until I redid the first partition (with knoppix) that the system responded,
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Originally Posted by bcole
I don't believe it's really booting all the way
"all drives act the same "
"and there she sits only power & network led no heartbeat"
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(middle led out = system not up)
I'm thinking the reason it didn't boot properly from grub was the kernel command
I used “kernel /boot/vmlinuz-gos-up root=hda2 “
root(hd0,1) <-- tells grub to look in 2nd partition since my 1st partition was empty
-----------------------actual guardian grub.conf points to (hd0,0) because the kernel should be there
-----------------------next line is more consistent with kernel statement in the grub.conf file
-----------------------with the exception of /boot which tells which dir the kernel (vmlinuz-gos-up)
-----------------------is located on the partition specified.
“kernel /boot/vmlinuz-gos-up root=/dev/ram ramdisk=16384 console=ttys0,115200n8 rw uppermem 16384”
------------------------I think lacking the console statement was preventing anything being output to the
------------------------hyperterminal conneted to the serial port.there is also a serial and terminal
------------------------statements at the beginig of grub.conf
------------------------ All I got was the same banner output to the vga. There should be 3 options to boot in a terminal setup
-------------------------1st option is normal 2nd being alternate boot 3rd which would boot to recovery console
If anyone knows for sure please verify, I'm only speculating. Strange thing is after system was repaired the /boot dir on partition disapeared
Right now once my system is back up and synced I’ll try to take a day and try to bring it back up with one of the drives where the OS is broke.
The system is up now and resyncing the new drives which had no problem copying the OS or recognizing their size.
Many Thanks To All,
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Originally Posted by bcole
FYI
1st partition contains
a----- 2776780 30-Nov-109 14:36 Guardian-initrd.smp
a----- 2766523 30-Nov-109 14:36 Guardian-initrd.up
a----- 407025 30-Nov-109 14:36 System.map-gos-smp
a----- 385298 30-Nov-109 14:36 System.map-gos-up
a----- 19649 30-Nov-109 14:36 config-gos-smp
a----- 19627 30-Nov-109 14:36 config-gos-up
-d---- 0 30-Nov-109 14:36 grub
-d---- 0 30-Nov-109 14:36 lost+found
a----- 1320674 30-Nov-109 14:36 vmlinuz-gos-smp
a----- 1250189 30-Nov-109 14:36 vmlinuz-gos-up
./grub:
total 130
-d---- 0 30-Nov-109 14:36 .
-d---- 0 30-Nov-109 14:36 ..
a----- 709 30-Nov-109 14:36 grub.conf
a----- 512 30-Nov-109 14:36 stage1
a----- 131008 30-Nov-109 14:36 stage2
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also
grub.conf (for snap4500 single processor)
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serial --unit=0 --speed=115200
terminal --timeout=0 serial
default 0
fallback 5
timeout 10
title Opus (default boot)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-gos-up root=/dev/ram ramdisk=16384 console=ttyS0,115200n8 rw
uppermem 16384
initrd /Guardian-initrd.up
title Opus-alt (use alt kernel from /boot in root filesystem)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/bzImage.alt root=/dev/ram ramdisk=16384 console=ttyS0,115200n8 rw ACCEPTROOT=1
uppermem 16384
initrd /boot/Guardian-initrd.alt
title tserver (start tserver installation only)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-gos-up root=/dev/ram ramdisk=16384 console=ttyS0,115200n8 rw NOPIVOT=true
uppermem 16384
initrd /Guardian-initrd.up
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