Murphy’s law strikes again. Go figure. The week the only two people who know anything about the server (I’m one of them) go away is when it dies. And die it did, sometime Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, after everyone had left for the holiday. As near as I can tell, something happened to the root file system. Restored data from backup, and it’s partially OK, but it only boots off the floppy. Seems to be having some bootloader issues on the primary hard drive. Ugh. At least there was no significant data loss. Data was restored from a backup done on Tuesday.
So now there’s a bunch of blogging that I had planned to do while I was away at RSNA that I’ll have to do retroactively. Stay tuned.
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Google saves the day! The server is back up and running, fully restored with a new kernel even. My problem: the boot process stopped at a GRUB prompt. A Google search yielded a few helpful web pages where I learned how to reinstall grub to the MBR. Did that, rebooted and everything came up perfectly! Yay!