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How Do You Rescue Mandrake?

mastertech01

mastertech01

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Ive lost two data bases this week on failed restarts on Mandrake machines this week because I simply dont know how to recover them. Its appearantly not like windows in that respect. Of course being a nix newbie sure doesnt help. I simply rebooted these machines and they stalled and would not boot the OS. It would just say loading linux......... I tried both normal and failsafe... same result. I then tried the install disk and typed in rescue from the f1 option.... it then loads drivers and gives several options which didnt help. Is there a simple way to do a reinstall saving current data, or do I have to wipe and reinstall every time? Also is there a way I can transfer a drive to a new machine in case of hardware failure without reinstalling fresh? A way to mirror to another drive? This really has hurt my D2OL production this week and I feel its mostly my fault for being so nix ignorant.

Thanks

John
 
This is one of those situations where it really would have been nice for Mandrake to have included a full command prompt on the install CD, like Debian, Slackware, and some others do. What I would suggest:

1. Boot a cd-based Linux system, such as the Slackware install CD, the Debian install CD, Knoppix, or the Suse eval CD.
2. Get to a command prompt (Debian: select 'exit to console', Knoppix and Suse eval: open a terminal)
3. Mount your drive.
4. Transfer whatever data you need to save to another computer

Of course, a little more detail about your problem would help us help you fix it. Does it ever boot successfuly, or does it do that on the first boot after install? What's the last thing you did before it broke?
 
There were no changes, these just run the D2OL distributed computing agent. I noticed sluggish operation so I closed the Agent to reboot the system to try to improve performance. Then it just stalled on reboot. One system after a couple reboots would not even post, so I figured the processor went TU. So I transferred the drive to another computer and it would boot to the hardware detection screen, asked me to remove configuration for items removed, but did not ask to configure new hardware. Then it booted to the login screen and just flashed that screen repeatedly. On another system no changes, just shut down to reboot for same reason and it would never even get to hardware detection. After several boots it would hang on what appears to be a disk check. Over and over. Also on 3rd machine similar result to second. So I guess it was 3 times this week. Later I was able to get the first one that would not even post to work again and reinstalled the OS and is currently working fine.

Hope thats enough to help.
 
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