[ale] Can't Boot! Need Super Block Wizard

[Scott McBrien]

As an aside, there is no such thing as Red Hat Fedora Core 6.  It's either Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is a pay for product complete with support (to help with these types of issues), or Fedora Core 6, a community based distro that has about a 1 year life cycle.  If you're using Fedora Core 6 on production boxes (1) you're horribly out of date as they're now at Fedora 17 and (2) you shouldn't use community based distros for production systems.  Sure they're free, but you're on your own when stuff breaks.  If you *must* use a community based distro you want something like CentOS, which has a 7 or 10 year lifespan or Ubuntu LTS which has a 5 year lifespan.  If for no other reason than you can get updates (like to glibc which on your machine has several local user can take root exploits on it.)

Perhaps we need a presentation on why one should choose an enterprise distro, as this is the second of these types of issues I've seen this week!  [the first was not an ALE reported issue :-) ]

-Scott

On Jun 12, 2012, at 7:52 PM, mdkliman at aol.com wrote:

> I have a small business in Norcross, with 3 Linux servers running Red Hat Fedora Core 6.
> One of these is a database server running Oracle 11i.
>  
> We lost power and now the DB server won't boot.  It displays a message about not finding a "Super Block" and - I think - awaits entry of a utility name.  Our programmer is conversant with Linux, but told me I need help from an experienced Linux Admin.
>  
> "I've fallen and I can't get up."  I sure could use some help before I lose any more customers.
>  
> Thank you, in advance,
>  
> Marvin Kliman
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