[ILUG] server doesn't have the decency to crash ...

[Bernhard D Rohrer]

Hi guys

I have a box that is running karmic server ed and that has hot swap 
drives with 1 as normal drive and one as failover. The thoery is that 
the drives get rsynced occasionally and if the first one fails the box 
crashes and comes up to the second one.

In praxis what happened is that since the drives are in a hotswap sata 
cage we nicked the system drive and it doesn't crash. But no shutdown 
command works anymore, they either throw an i/o error or do nothing at 
all. So far tried:

reboot
shutdown
halt
init 6
init 0
runlevel 0
runlevel 6

any ideas?


we have been discussing building a ram disk and putting what is needed 
in there. but what?

thanks

Bernhard