Last night I went ahead and updated the firmware for the BIOS on Walnut, and fortunately, that resolved the issue with the bad RAM. The server is now reporting all 32 Gb (no missing modules).
Also, while I was at that, I updated the VMHost to Update 1, in preparation for View 4.
Unfortunately my connection was agonizingly slow at home, and was unable to do anymore maintenance by the time I was done with these two tasks.
We still need to work on bringing the array online for the backup drive, and get the logs for the RAID controllers to make sure that there is nothing wrong with the motherboard. I will probably do this over the weekend.
Technical:
Because that host was hosting the VM that contained DHCP on it, i had to boot the OMSA Live CD, and manually assign an IP to the server in order to copy files from and to it.
The setup of the IP has to be done from the root user:
- Login to the server with sluser and the password created when OMSA Live booted.
- type: su – (and type the password for sluser)
- Now set the IP: ifconfig eth0 10.40.150.151 netmask 255.255.248.0
- Set the gateway: route add default gw 10.40.151.254
- (optional): vi /etc/resolve.conf, and add these lines:
search chino.k12.ca.us
nameserver 10.40.55.2
nameserver 10.40.55.10
The server is now back up and running.
- This change was made on 01/29/2010 at 12:00am
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