HPD350 running 11.0 won't boot

[kevin donnelly]

I have an HPD350 that won't boot for me. It gets to the following point and just sticks there:
/sbin/bcheckrc:
Check for LVM volume groups and activating (if any exist)
Volume group "/dev/vg00" has been successfully changed

It just sits there forever. The machine has 5 4.3 Gig drives in the case. The 4th one down flashes its light every second or so. It's hardware address would be 8/14.10.0. It also has an external storage enclosure with 2 18.2Gig drives.

Help!

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Looks like you have a problem with the volume group that is possibly on disk 8/14.10.0. The first thing to try would be to isolate these external disk(s) by terminating it from your server and attempt a reboot.

HTH
Michael

[kevin donnelly]

I figured I had nothing to lose so I unplugged the drive and plugged it back in. The boot continued immediatly.

Just to make sure I rebooted and it came right back up.

[harry d brown jr]

kevin,

On the lighter side, wouldn't this statement be an oxymoron ??

HPD350 running 11.0 won't boot

If it's not booting, then it's not running, right ?? I got a good giggle out of it! Glad to see you tried the good old -> check the wires/cables trick :-)


live free or die
harry

[kevin donnelly]

It was running...just not well. It had partial booted, sort of. I guess it would have been like if your car started but wouldn't go into drive.

I sure wouldn't have laughed a few hours ago. I am glad it was just that simple.