Topic: trying to boot into single user mode fails

[shammus]

Hi everybody,

I had one of my customers SME 6.0 brown out today, and will not boot.

I have tried at the mitel screen
CTRL X
(tab)
single

to boot into single user mode, however there is only the two images listed the SME up and smp images listed. I did have a boot disk for this box 2 years ago.

i ahve also had to do a mobo upgrade as the mobo died in the brown out

any advise greatly received

Owen  

[GoVeGeTa]

I had that happen to me a couple of months back!

The only thing I could do was hoped that i had a recent backup - and reinstalled the server!

Sorry i'm not much help!

But that is what i did, and bar losing only 3 days worth of information the rest is all good!

[smeghead]

.. I presume you typed SME-up single and not ingle on its own?

If replacing the mobo then you are best served by keeping the architectures reasonably similar ie if the old mobo was a an Intel BX chipset with a PIII 500 then get another BX or 810/815, or even one of the newer 845/865 boards.  If you swap from Intel to AMD or vice versa it can occasionally produce dramas.

HTH

[CharlieBrady]

.. I presume you typed SME-up single and not ingle on its own?

If replacing the mobo then you are best served by keeping the architectures reasonably similar ie if the old mobo was a an Intel BX chipset with a PIII 500 then get another BX or 810/815, or even one of the newer 845/865 boards.

The chipset doesn't need to be the same or similar, it just needs to be supported.

If the NIC has changed, you'll need to run through the config console again.

If you swap from Intel to AMD or vice versa it can occasionally produce dramas.

Intel to AMD will work fine. AMD to Intel won't. The AMD chips will happily run an i686 kernel, but Intel chips won't run an "athlon" kernel.

[shammus]

thanks,

unfortunately i am going from amd to intel, so it looks like in the ditch ..i have another post about retore from tape not working

owen

[GoVeGeTa]

Well all you can do then is reinstall,
if my memory serves me right, when you do an initial install your cpu architecture is recorded (i386,i686,i586).
So if you're changing chipsets architectures and mobo's, the only thing i can see you doing is a reinstall on new board, and manually backing up your databases, i-bays etc.... etc.......

Please correct me if i'm wrong, I'm no expert!