Lightning struck a utility pole at our location. The AC power supply is protected by backup power, grounding, and surge suppression, which saved the server and the hard drive raid array. The inducted currents in the network wiring, destroyed the two network interface cards. We installed spares and so now get a warning on startup that says, (basically) "MAC address does not match, ignoring". (once for red, and once for green). Then the system goes into a loop. I am certain this has happened before (elsewhere) so there is most likely a convenient way to get into configuration to assign the new network cards. I have searched, but I can't find it. In the Admin Manual Chapter 5: it states, "To change configuration settings, you have set during install, at a later date you can login as admin user to your server console and choose the option to Reconfigure your server. You will be take through the configuration routine just like during installation. Make your necessary changes or use the Keep option to preserve the settings you have set previously." I would like to do that, but I have not figured out how to get far enough to login. I am obviously missing something.
I can start with the official CD and issue Linux rescue, tell the network not to start. Possibly there is a configuration file I can edit to replace the two old NIC's media access codes with the new MACs ? What would be the proper way to fix this?
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