urgent - boot "error"

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hhm · #1 Post by **hhm** » 2005-05-13 07:40

Hi

I manage a Debian server here at work and suddenly, when we rebooted earlier this week, the system halted during the boot-process.

I can see that the following error has occured:

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter errno=2

How do I solve this problem? Since I'm a relative nooB in this area, please describe the solution-process in detail. Thanks...

The computer is a Dell rack-server with a 250GB Maxtor SATA disk.

best regards
/Henrik

sprucio · #2 Post by **sprucio** » 2005-05-13 13:33

What was the last thing you did?

Did you update any software or the kernel itself?

hhm · #3 Post by **hhm** » 2005-05-14 08:37

sprucio wrote:What was the last thing you did?

Did you update any software or the kernel itself?

No, I didn't update any software during the time before the problem occured...

The other day, when I was checking the server via my private workstation, I couldn't get in contact with the server, so I asked my boss to reboot the server.
It was during this reboot that the server reportet the kmod error.

Is there any way for me to get hold of the data on the disk?

hhm · #4 Post by **hhm** » 2005-05-14 11:53

Here are a couple of screenshots from the boot:

http://www.hi.au.dk/hhm/drac1.jpg
http://www.hi.au.dk/hhm/drac2.jpg

hope they help...

further I can inform that the system is running with a CERC SATA 1.5/6ch Controller.

sprucio · #5 Post by **sprucio** » 2005-05-14 15:19

As long as the discs were not in any danger, you should be able to get things off the disk rather easily. You can use a live CD such as Knoppix to boot and then move files over to another server using either FTP or Samba.

The only thing that worries me is if you have any sort of RAID running on this.

From the error message, it looks like that controller card might be faulty.

Guest · #6 Post by **Guest** » 2005-05-14 17:31

sprucio wrote:As long as the discs were not in any danger, you should be able to get things off the disk rather easily. You can use a live CD such as Knoppix to boot and then move files over to another server using either FTP or Samba.

The only thing that worries me is if you have any sort of RAID running on this.

From the error message, it looks like that controller card might be faulty.

thanks, I'll check it out tomorrow..

hhm · #7 Post by **hhm** » 2005-05-15 11:10

Anonymous wrote:
sprucio wrote:As long as the discs were not in any danger, you should be able to get things off the disk rather easily. You can use a live CD such as Knoppix to boot and then move files over to another server using either FTP or Samba.

The only thing that worries me is if you have any sort of RAID running on this.

From the error message, it looks like that controller card might be faulty.
thanks, I'll check it out tomorrow..

ok, it worked with a boot on Knoppix live cd... could access the files and make a backup to another server.

according to the log files, the problem is on the disk and not the controller.

thanks for all the help!

sprucio · #8 Post by **sprucio** » 2005-05-16 17:34

RAID 5 is your best friend. RAID 1 should work in theory but it has come back to bite me in the rear end a few times.