Joseph Koenig wrote:
>>
>> Odd thought: have you tried a) looking at the drives in the PERC
>> firmware, or b) booting to linux rescue, and examining the filesystems?

> Well, sure enough, it can't seem to find any good superblocks. Even
> backups are showing corrupt. Will reinstall and see what happens...

You mean the backup superblocks are bad? And it was a running system before?

Is it still under warranty? You might consider talking to Dell about
checking it out. They'll want you to run the OMSA utility that scans the
system.

mark

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>> Well, sure enough, it can't seem to find any good superblocks. Even
>> backups are showing corrupt. Will reinstall and see what happens...
> You mean the backup superblocks are bad? And it was a running system before?
>
> Is it still under warranty? You might consider talking to Dell about
> checking it out. They'll want you to run the OMSA utility that scans the
> system.
>
Yep, was running just fine, install went fine, then at reboot after the
yum update, this happened. Server is maybe a week old, so yeah, will get
a hold of Dell. Thanks,

Joe
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I have the same behavior 6.2 vs latest on my Toshiba satellite.

32-220 boots fine (except for the touchpad and power detection)
32-279.2.1 crashes immediately

Glad to forward logs

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

> Joseph Koenig wrote:
>>>> Yes, grub was installed, and it would seem PERC controller is
>>>> presenting
>>>> drives to the system - at least it was. Before I ran a yum update after
>>>> installing the system, I could boot it and log in just fine.
>>>>
>>>> Worth reinstalling from the minimal install disc again just to make
>>>> sure
>>>> that still works? Would that rule out something having gone awry with
>>>> my
>>>> RAID card or disk?
>>> You *might* want to try installing the minimal server version. Minimal
>>> means a lot less....
>> Installed from minimal the first time around, which is why I thought
>> doing that again may be helpful. You think I'd be best to get the full
>> install and run that though?
>>
> Well, I think there's a minimal server, rather than the full server
> install. Of course, I could be confusing that with our pxeboot setup....
>
>
> Odd thought: have you tried a) looking at the drives in the PERC firmware,
> or b) booting to linux rescue, and examining the filesystems?
>
> mark
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