Do you have another 64-bit 'live cd' like Ubuntu Hoary or
something like that? If so, maybe you can boot to it and copy a
64 bit kernel and get it to work.<br>
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Marc<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/1/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anne Ramey</b> <<a href="mailto:anner@blast.com">anner@blast.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>T. Horsnell wrote:<br>>>Alexander Dalloz wrote:<br>>><br>>>>Am Mo, den 01.08.2005 schrieb Anne Ramey um 17:47:<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>><br>>>>>I updated to 2.6.12
kernel without updating something else necessary,<br>>>>>apparently and have hosed my system. The real problem is that it won't<br>>>>>boot of disk. We had 2 64 bit systems have the kernel problem and the
<br>>>>>other is back up and running fine. The only disk I can get the second<br>>>>>system to boot is off a 386 iso, which causes problems when I try and do<br>>>>>anything (including chroot /mnt/sysimage) so I can't really rescue the
<br>>>>>system. I'd be ok with reinstalling, because I was just doing the<br>>>>>initial system set-up anyway, but I can't figure out how to do that<br>>>>>without being able to boot off a cd. The instructions I've found from
<br>>>>>booting from the network start with--boot from an iso cd (not helpful).<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>>>Anne<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>>How did you initially install the machine in question? At that time it
<br>>>>booted from your CD but now after a kernel update it does not any<br>>>>longer? Please provide hardware information, especially about the<br>>>>controller (IDE / SCSI) and what else might be important.
<br>>>><br>>>>Alexander<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>><br>>><br>>>The machine came with fedora 3 (kernel 2.6.10) installed, so I guess it<br>>>did boot from 64 bit CD at one point, but I never did it.
<br>>>Hardware RAID: 8-Ch 3Ware SATA 9500S-8 w/ battery<br>>>IDE Devices: hda: QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW242C<br>>>SCSI Devices: AMCC 9500S-8 DISK (Direct-Access)<br>>><br>>>This is the system info for the system that did come back up:
<br>>><a href="http://daredevil.blast.com/sys/">http://daredevil.blast.com/sys/</a><br>>>The only differences between the two are disk size and sw/hw raid.<br>>>Daredevil has software raid, the dead one has hw raid.
<br>>><br>>>Anne<br>><br>><br>> When you say it 'wont boot off CD', what sort of error msg do<br>> you get? Is your BIOS config'd to boot from CD as the first choice,<br>> or is the box still actually trying to boot from your raid system?
<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>> Terry.<br>><br><br>Yes, BIOS is set to boot of CD. It asks me to choose another boot<br>method or insert bootable media. As I mentioned, it just doesn't work<br>for 64 bit iso, a friend's 386 iso boots, but doesn't allow me to rescue
<br>the system because of the incompatibility. This same 64 bit iso disk<br>rescued my other 64 bit system. I even made another copy, thinking it<br>had somehow turned into a coaster in between systems. No luck.<br><br>
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