System Recovery

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:33 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
> Found something interesting in my feeble attempts to bring up the system
> again.  It looks like the DVD writer is responsible or non-compliant
> with my version of linux (Scientific Linux 5.2 - "RHEL5.2").  Installing
> linux with the DVD writer caused a kernel panic.  If anyone wants more
> details I can provide a few.  
> 
> I took out the errant hardware and swapped in the old DVD-ROM.  No
> kernel panic and the system is installing now.  FWIW I am installing a
> new system on the 300GB SATA drive.
> 
> This leads me to believe that wanting to write DVDs caused the whole
> system to crash to begin with.  Arrgh.  
> 
> After this is all done, I will disconnect the new disk and try a rescue
> on the old disk - without the damn DVD writer.  Hmm - are there any SATA
> DVD writers that work?

Yep, I've got a sata Plextor PX-755A or something like that which works
great.

> I would not have figured that this drive would
> have caused the havoc to begin with.

Hrm, me neither.


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Jarod Wilson
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