[nos-bbs] Hard drive issues?

aa9vt1 aa9vt1 at mchsi.com
Sat Jun 16 13:52:33 EDT 2012


I had a similar failure and the problem was the motherboard. If it won't 
boot of a CD/DVD like KNOPPIX, I would suspect the motherboard.

You might be able to read the hard drive off another computer.

John

On 06/16/2012 10:05 AM, Chris Maness wrote:
> Yesterday, I had a power failure, and when power was restored, my JNOS
> box failed to boot.  This wouldn't be that big of a deal, but my last
> back up is on the old side.  The computer is spontaneously rebooting
> when the kernel goes to mount the drive.  I have never had this happen
> before.  It is an older SCSI drive.  I imagine the disk is still
> working because it is reading the boot sector.  If I use a live CD to
> try to mount it also spontaneously reboots.  I am not sure if my BIOS
> settings have changed since the power failure.  I checked the clock in
> the BIOS and the time was still the current time, so I would imagine
> the mother board battery still had some juice.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Chris KQ6UP
>
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