[ale] FW: Linux boxes fixed

[Eichler, Paula J.]

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class=186565613-15012002>Thought you all would like to know what seems to be 
helping my kernel panic yesterday.  Thanks to everyone that responded 
...pj
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size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Pham Viet Cuong 
[mailto:pvc1 at hsph.edu.vn]Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:04 
PMTo: Paula Allen (Allen, Paula ); Jackson, Joe; Micheal 
LinnanSubject: Linux boxes fixed
Dear all, 
 
The problems with two 
linux boxes were fixed, we found out that Compaq workstation has the problem 
with scsi cable, there is small cut on the cable, and it created the problems of 
hard drive not work stable, we have replace cable and the problem was 
fixed.
The Proliant 800 has 
more serious problems, this server have 3x 9Gb HDD, it uses RAID to mount into 
one logical HDD, but one of them have some bad sectors.  We fixed 
the server as following:
- we use Redhat 
installation CD to boot the server and use Linux Rescue mod to boot, the server 
can boot and it mount our system into a folder (mnt/sysimage), we check and 
found out that everything is still there, nothing lost. But the system is not 
mount fs partition. We used fsck and e2fsck to scan all partitions, 
/dev/ida/c0d0p3, ....p6-9. The partition c0d0p3 have a fatal error with many 
sectors, and we have try to clean them manually. 
- after clean hdd we 
reboot server and reinstall server with "upgrade mode"<FONT 
color=#000080>, at the end we create the 
boot disk of that server. After installation we boot the server by FDD and at 
the boot: prompt we type the "linux root=/dev/ida/c0d0p9" and the server can 
boot normally, we remount the partitions by changing fstab and the problem was 
fixed. The mailserver now can work but it could not boot by HDD, we still 
need diskette to boot. 
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I think the problem with 
proliant is now solved 50% we still need to make it totally fix, I think I will 
setup mailservice on one linux box (HP box, it is now 
running apache) to keep the mail running and try to reinstall the 
proliant 800 (I will reformat the HDD and install everything new). And after 
install I will move mailservice back to Pro. 800. 
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Do you have any other 
solutions for us, 
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Hope to hear from you 
soon, 
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Bye for now, 

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