problem booting Debian on X1
I've got a well-established Sun X1 that's been running Debian6 for
years. it's got two disks raid1 via mdadm.
Recently, we rebooted the server (was healthy afaict) and it won't come
back. When it tries to boot, it prints "SI" (where it would normally
say SILO and continue booting) and then just gets stuck.
I've tried booting directly to disk2:3 and it does the same thing. I've
tried swapping the disks around and haven't gotten any further. I moved
the disks to a different chassis, changed memory, changed cables, all
yields the same.
Any ideas how I can get this server to boot? I'd like to try to
reinstall SILO, but I am having trouble finding how to do that. When I
boot to a Debian6 sparc cd and go into rescue mode, after it loads
modules from the cdrom the terminal just hangs (or sits there longer
than I've waited for it - 30-40 min).
I also tried reinstalling SILO from the expert menu of the installer,
but i can't install SILO without installing the base system (it's a prereq).
The expert mode shell doesnt see either disk; nothing is mounted on /target.
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Jeremy Kister
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