While we were setting up our new servers to roll out this december, we had no problems with this refurbished Intel 3.0 xeon server. The other one, the backup one, did have some big problems.
Here's the issue. While we're running on another real backup server right now, my boss yesterday moved the good server to the spot where the old one was. (and died a couple months ago).
When he tried to boot it up, the BIOS goes allright but when it should load grub, there's nothing but a flashing cursor. He told me to work on it today while he's gone and I've been going mad trying to get it to boot. I've tried two different bootable discs and two different IDE cdroms. I know about a month ago it booted off a cd to install gentoo. I need to bootup a livecd to reinstall grub which I'm sure is a problem.
Is there anything I can do to continue to troubleshoot this? I've checked BIOS and SCSI BIOS settings, comparing the working machine to this bad one and they're all the same as far as I can tell.
Thanks for any advice.
The board is an Intel Server Board SE7501BR2.
Here's the issue. While we're running on another real backup server right now, my boss yesterday moved the good server to the spot where the old one was. (and died a couple months ago).
When he tried to boot it up, the BIOS goes allright but when it should load grub, there's nothing but a flashing cursor. He told me to work on it today while he's gone and I've been going mad trying to get it to boot. I've tried two different bootable discs and two different IDE cdroms. I know about a month ago it booted off a cd to install gentoo. I need to bootup a livecd to reinstall grub which I'm sure is a problem.
Is there anything I can do to continue to troubleshoot this? I've checked BIOS and SCSI BIOS settings, comparing the working machine to this bad one and they're all the same as far as I can tell.
Thanks for any advice.
The board is an Intel Server Board SE7501BR2.
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