[Server-devel] OLPC XS- Not booting

[Anna]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Dudley Daduwe
<ddaduwe.olpcbug at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you for the updates on the motherboard. Please advise me as to how I
> could troobleshoot my E-Box server.
> Previously I was able to connect the IDE and boot up.However, I decided to
> remove the original IDE HDD  and put and new IDE HDD onto the server. After
> doing that I was not able to see any activity on the screen for about 5
> minutes. So I decided to put back the original IDE HDD but still does not
> show any activity. Looking at the HDD LED display, I could not see any
> activity taking place. How can I get the server back to boot with a display
> on the screen.
>
> Dudley Daduwe
>
>
Can you get into BIOS?  Can the BIOS see the hard drives?

If you don't know if the machine itself is working outside the hard drives,
have you tried booting from a Linux rescue CD?  Some folks like Knoppix for
that.  I tend to use Ubuntu NBR (cause I usually have that CD on top of the
stack).  But there are a myriad of Linux live CDs out there.

If you can get into a live Linux boot, ls /dev and see if you see your hard
drives.  If you don't see them, or can't boot into Linux from a CD, then
it's time to break the box down and reconnect the drives.  Or check the
power supply.  I've run into so many hardware issues with the old stuff I
work with, I can't even keep track of how many problems I've had.

Hard drives give me special trouble.  If I can actually see the stubborn
drives in /dev, I'll use gparted or fdisk to format to a single fat32
partition.  Then the XS install usually picks it up.

Anna Schoolfield
Birmingham
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