Re: booting an Xserve G5

Hi Greg, ironically, I have a G5 desktop running 10.3 server with a
degraded RAID configuration. I noticed it last week. Have you seen
the Apple document that explains how to rebind disks:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106987

Aron Roberts pointed it out. He had the same problem a year ago:

http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/magnet/2004/0290.html

I have a feeling the disks in my machine have been degraded for a
while - perhaps as long as a month. It's been real slow especially
when using the GUI.

Mark

On Aug 21, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Greg Merritt wrote:

>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Not sure if the original disk is at hand -- or if it is, it's
> likely not labeled anything than just a box of plain ol' OS X Server.
>
> It does have a PCI video card.
>
> I might not try again until later this week. Bit of a catch-22 --
> the RAID is degraded, but the research group is madly trying to
> meet a deadline. Folks are crossing fingers that it will stay
> healthy enough to make it through a few more days without getting
> much worse. (Yikes.)
>
> Glad to have Carbon Copy Cloner...
>
> Thanks,
> -Greg
>
>
> On Aug 21, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Mark Ingles wrote:
>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Have you tried using the original disk that came with the machine?
>> That may be the ticket. I wonder if a client version of OS X can
>> be installed on an xserve. For some reason, I don't think it can.
>> Will you have a monitor or is it headless?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
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