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Re: [Plug] hardware problems.
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I was running 6.0 Red Hat with no problems and I decided to upgrade it to
6.1.
I had problems. I too then formatted the drive and tried just installing 6.1
as a new install. The option to fdisk seems to have gone away on the new
version, they only offer disk druid from what I saw.
After the "upgrade" I got an error of my SCSI disk drives failed and the
system just stopped booting. I formatted again and this time LILO did not
work anymore... I got LI- and the system stopped. After many hours, the
system did work but it seemed to be missing some files, ipop3d for one. I
spent 3 hours or so trying to figure why I could not get the pop3 mail
system to work.
The bottom line is I took my 6.0 disk and started a new install. I used
fdisk and deleted everything and reset the partitions and then during
installation I formatted and checked for bad blocks. Everything works fine
now and I wonder if anyone else has had any problems with the 6.1 redhat
upgrade.
Just for info:
I have a Compaq proliant 6500 with 2 scsi 4.3 gig drives
-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle Weber <umweber@mcs.drexel.edu>
To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Date: Monday, December 13, 1999 8:09 PM
Subject: [Plug] hardware problems.
>Hi, I have a server which recently kept freezing for nothing which seemed
>hardware related, I checked the logs, and then noticed all these errors
>spewed out to the console about one of the drives. After being rebooted so
>many times without the drive being unmounted, I ran an fsck which started
>creeping above 1 hour (on a 1 gig drive!) so I decided to just take it out
>of its misery, and reformat, reinstall Redhat. I couldn't even format the
>poor thing, it kept giving errors, so I just took it out, and installed a
>clean version of 6.1. The box has been up since then, but today the other
>drive, /home, which I didn't format, kept from the old install of 6.0,
>started spewing out these goofy errors too! So then I did a shutdown, did
>a warm boot, got a Hard disk failure from the bios! Did a cold boot, it
>seemed to be ok, but I noticed the drive wasn't cleanly unmounted, and
>redhat ran fsck by itself, and it seems to be acting normal now.
>What could be the cause of this? This drive is 10 gigs, and I'm not about
>to through it away as if it was 1 gig.
>
>
>--
>Michelle Weber
>umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
>
>
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