Click here for kernel panic resolution
Click here if your system does not report RAID status properly
Click here if your systems email services fail to start properly
If your system does not boot and the LCD prints: Kernel panic
For servers with 2 hard drives (RAID1)- Please turn on your server and hold down S on the LCD control panel.
- The LCD will print "Select Option" "Boot from Disk" press 'S' until the LCD prints "Configure boot Disk"
- Press 'E' The LCD will print "Select Boot Disk"
- Press 'S' until the LCD prints "md1"
- Press 'E' The LCD will print "Select Option" "Boot from Disk"
- Press 'E
The system should now boot as normal
For servers with 1 hard drive
- Please turn on your server and hold down S on the LCD control panel.
- The LCD will print "Select Option" "Boot from Disk" press 'S' until the LCD prints "Configure boot Disk"
- Press 'E' The LCD will print "Select Boot Disk"
- Press 'S' until the LCD prints "hda1"
- Press 'E' The LCD will print "Select Option" "Boot from Disk"
- Press 'E
Raid Status Information is not shown in the active monitor
If after installing SB2 from the USB key, Active Monitor does not display RAID status information, follow these steps:
- SSH into the affected server
- Become root
- cd /tmp
- wget http://www.osoffice.co.uk/linux/generate_raidtab_script.sh
- chmod +x generate_raidtab_script.sh
- ./generate_raidtab_script.sh >/etc/raidtab
This will create the /etc/raidtab file. Active monitor will now display information about your RAID status.
POP3/IMAP email services (Dovecot) does not start
If after installing SB2 from the USB key, the POP/IMAP email services fail to start, do the following:
- SSH into the affected server
- Become root
- cd /tmp
- wget http://www.osoffice.co.uk/linux/dovecot.conf
- mv /etc/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot.conf.old
- mv /tmp/dovecot.conf /etc/
- /sbin/service dovecot start
This will replace your dovecot configuration file and the email services will now start