[Server-devel] OLPC XS- Not booting

[rihoward1]

Dudley,

Do you hear any beeps when you power on the system?
Can yWhat procedures have you attempted to diagnose the problem?
ou describe the hardware you are using in a bit more detail?

Robert
----- Original message -----
> Hi all,
>
> The problem faced here is that, when you power the XS server you can see
> that the server has been powered and the pwer light is ON, however,
> there is NO DISPLAY ON THE SCREEN.
>
> Thank you,
> Dudley
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Anna <aschoolf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 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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