Topic: Boot problem

[henrika]

Hi all

I’ve got some SME server v.5.6 running, but got a problem with one of them.
It wont boot anymore, when it come to “Freeing unused kernel memory ……”, it just stop.
I’ve tried some other memory blocks, thinking it was a memory problem and another machine, still the same.
If I try to update it to v6.0.1, I get an error about the file system hasn’t been unmountet the right way and I’m only able to do a reinstall (don’t want to do that – used way to many hours on it ).

Anyone got any ideas to how I can get the box running again, or to how I can unmount the file syste right, so I can update the server to 6.0.1?


TIA


Henrik

[mbachmann]

Search here for "fsck".

Find out harddisk vendor and check HD with one of their tools. Usually those tools just want to create a bootdiskette and ran four several hours. If you are unlucky, Linux partitions cannot be checked, read the infos about the tools beforehand.

[henrika]

Why haven't I thought on fsck  
Think I've found some info I can use to get it running again.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction mbachmann

[MSmith]

Most complete description found in this document describing "powstatd" ... kudos to rmitchell ...

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/rmitchell/smeserver/howto/powstatd%20HOWTO%20for%20sme%20server.htm

To start up in single user mode, press Ctrl X when you see the e-smith, Mitel or sme logo appear on the screen after a reboot. This will start the server at a lilo text prompt.

For sme version 6.0

Type:

Mitel-SME-up

or

Mitel-SME-smp

For sme version 5.6

Type:

Mitel-SME single

or

Mitel-SME 1

For sme version 5.5, 5.1.2, 5.0, 4.1.2 or earlier

Type:

esmith single

or

esmith 1

This boots the server into single user mode.

[henrika]

I had to make a clean install, fsck couldn’t fix the hard drive errors  

Thanks for the suggestions for fixing the boot problem