From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [204.233.198.50] (helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192KOk-0000bu-00 for ; Sun, 06 Apr 2003 20:22:06 -0400 Received: (qmail 874 invoked by uid 1023); 7 Apr 2003 00:21:26 -0000 Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 19:21:26 -0500 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: unable to boot system! Why? Message-ID: <20030407002126.GA851@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <001301c2fcaf$85458f80$6701a8c0@ne2.client2.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <001301c2fcaf$85458f80$6701a8c0@ne2.client2.attbi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I had a problem not exactly like yours, but with the same beginning symptom= s. I had just rebooted my server. As I logged in, the drive was making a whole= bunch of noise, as if there was some big accessing going on.=20 Also, when I was typing on the keyboard, speakup and the doubletalk had a b= it of a delay in echoing the key strokes back, and commands took forever to= execute. Then I did reboot, and the system went through the post, but didn't boot. I was also unable to boot from floppies or cd-rom, until I cleared CMOS, an= d reconfigured my BIOS.=20 By the time I was able to boot from a floppy, I discovered that there was n= o partition table on my 2 drives which make up the raid 0 array. It was as if I had a brand new drive. Fortunately, I had a complete tarred backup of the server on another box, s= o for me, it was a matter of getting networking working under zipslack running from a zip disk, and u= ntarring the backup from the other machine to the server. Hope you didn't have the same thing happen to you. Greg On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 07:43:49PM -0700, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi all. I recently was using my system, in fact I was working on some sou= rce code. All of a sudden, my system started slowing down majorly. I checke= d ps to see if there were any processes that were writing to disk, and I co= uldn't find any. Yet I still heard the disk being accessed, and the system = kept on slowing down. I then powered it down and tried rebooting. However, = the machine failed to reboot. When I did attempt to reboot it, it started p= rinting endless strings of integers. And when I tried running lilo with the= Potato rescue floppies, I got the following error: "lilo: error in loading= shared libraries. ./Lilo: Symbol __cxa_atexit, version glibc_1.2.3, not de= fined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference. I tried copying the /lib = directory from the rescue flopppy (root floppy) to /target/lib, and no effe= ct. I still got the same error. And this box still will not reboot. And I d= o not want to install my entire system over again. Is there any way I can r= estore Lilo/all the libs without having to re-install everything? Has anyon= e encountered this error before and if so how did you fix it? Thanks!