[wellylug] Power flip affected servers

Richard Hector richard at walnut.gen.nz
Tue Mar 3 11:30:00 NZDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 11:24 +1300, David Antliff wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:16, John Durham <john.modec at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> > Which of these is most likely to work without destroying my server?
> 
> None of them.
> 
> All you need to do at this point is an fsck. If you can't boot the
> system or get into maintenance mode, use a LiveCD (you can use an
> install CD, but you need to know how to break out of the installer).

Alt-F2 or similar (maybe F3 or higher) will hopefully do that for an
ubuntu/debian installer. It should say 'Press Enter to activate this
console' or something like that, iirc.

Richard




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