[NTLUG:Discuss] Crash recovery

[Robert Pearson]

On 8/6/09, Fred <fredstevens at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>  On Wed Aug  5 16:06:29 CDT 2009 Robert Pearson e2eiod at gmail.com  wrote:
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>  >
>  > Do you get any error messages at all?
>  >
>  > Do you have GRUG installed for booting?
>  > For GRUB to work it has to find the boot file on the correct partition.
>  >
>  >  If not, how is your BIOS configured for booting?
>  > On my machines I can set the boot drive in the BIOS.
>  > Always works for IDE drives. Tricky to get to work with SATA drives.
>  >
>
>  Robert:
>
>  "blew" means just that: blew. Swapped power supply, mobo still dead.
>  Dead is also self explanatory, like an armadillo on the side of the road.
>  Will not power up.
>
>  This mobo has had cancer for a couple of years.. first the serial port got
>  to where it had to be power cycled before it would work, then IDE0
>  started the same crap and finally stopped altogether, then I noticed the
>  3.3 volt supply was giving a power fault. About 2.8 volts, I think. Since that
>  is a board-derived voltage, I figured it was only a matter of time before
>  it flat lined and 3 days ago it finally happened. Anyone have an ASUS
>  P4BP-MX to spare?
>
>  Fred
>

My questions were about when you tried to boot the drive in another computer?
I am not an expert on this but if your Linux is running DKMS the
kernel is rebuilt on the fly at boot time so the correct modules will
load. I'm sure I have said that wrong.
In terms of a Production environment this is not a useful way to spend
precious time. If you have the time, this knowledge might come in
handy should this happen again.