Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

El Viernes, 18 de Enero de 2008, Thomas Damgaard escribió:
> 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 or something.
>
> 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 laptop.
>
> I can then chroot into the filesystem and do stuff. I have tried
> installing an older kernel image package. But this did not help.
>
> Do you have any suggestions on how I can solve this problem and make
> my server boot again?
> Thanks.
>
> Additional informaiton:
> My hardware is a VIA mini-itx board with two 250GB ATA drives. The
> primary master contains one large ext3 filesystem which is the root
> filesystem. I boot from this.
> The secondary master contains one large ext3 filesystem that is
> encrypted using LUKS/cryptsetup. I use this for storage.
>
> My /boot/grub/menu.lst is here:
> http://thomasdamgaard.dk/p/P1050.html
>
> When it failed booting it used the kernel version 2.6.18-5-486.

This is not really a kde problem, but I'll try to give some pointers.

First of all I would change the root parameter in the boot command line for the real device, for example root=/dev/sda1, most probably in your case.

Change both boot lines and use the second which probably could give you more detailed information.

If this fails I would try to boot a debian-installer cd and install kernel again. Maybe it's a disk driver problem, but it's strange that you don't have any text, that would point to some video misconfiguration options.

Regards,

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     Raúl Sánchez Siles
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