jmair Posted February 11, 2010 Posted February 11, 2010 (edited) I know this is a shot in the dark, but..... We have a server with raid 5 that crashed. I make full backups (system images) weekly, and used one of those images on another machine while I got this server working. I replaced the SCSI controller, made my logical drive of the array (as a raid 5 again) and shot the weekly complete backup image at the fixed drive. Using am Ubuntu startup CD, I can see all of the system server files were placed on this server, however when the server boots, only a flashing curser shows on the top left of the screen. I've never seen this before, any ideas? Edited February 11, 2010 by jmair
Richbrown Posted February 11, 2010 Posted February 11, 2010 Hi there, Have you tried to set the MBR ? what Os are you using ? If its win 2x you can use the Recovery console and use the good old fixboot command Also with the Raid 5 array have you got the partitions exactly the same as before ?
jmair Posted February 11, 2010 Author Posted February 11, 2010 Thanks for the quick reply... I dont know what it is, but once I type out the problem and walk away, I get another idea in my head that often is the solution. There was a second raid controller that was disabled.... turned it back on and Bam, worked like a charm..
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