On most cases, when preparing a recovery server, you can just ‘tar’ the entire server’s contents and just move it, along with a short recipe on how to rebuild the original partition layout (software Raid? LVM? flat partition tables?), how to mount volumes in-place, how to extract the tar files into the right locations, and…
I add to this blog all pieces of information which I might think could help other people. One of the things I have encountered short while ago had to do with DL140 G1 system cannot boot Linux. It’s Linux system (RedHat 4 32bit) was deployed by an external system and the system could not boot….
A copy of a post made in Ubuntu forms, with the hope it would help others in status such as I’ve been in. Available through here In afterthought, I think the header should be non-common, rahter than non-standard… Hi all. I have passed through this forum yesterday, searching for a possible cause for a problem…
Installed RHEL4 on a system with both internal storage (HP SmartAray 5i – cciss) and external disks through Qlogic FCS HBA. During install, the local disks were detected as /dev/cciss/c0d0 while the external disks were detected as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb After installation was done, Grub started with incorrect mapping. For no apparent reason, Grub searched…
Using the same installation server as before, my laptop, I was able to install Linux Centos 4.3, with the addition of HP’s drivers for Adaptec SATA raid controller, on my new HP ML110 G3. Using just the same method as before, when I’ve installed Centos 4.3 on IBM x306, but with HP drivers, I was…
In this part – Me installing Centos 4.1 64bit, the 86_x64 version. Installation and boot from net (another chapter, soon to come), all works great. I’m using the same partition table / Raid / LVM I’ve created in my previous install on this server. All looks great, and I expect to find the same GRUB…
