State of the Machines
So, after a wave of hardware purchases and struggling with AirPort Extreme, there was a brief day or two where all the computer hardware in the house (save the Time Machine drive) was working correctly as far as I can tell. And then the CPU fan on the media box started wailing. I mean, it was in the basement, but I could hear it from my office upstairs.
Well, I didn't have a spare fan for that system on hand, and I couldn't see any way to get at it other than taking the motherboard out. But I did have a spare motherboard and CPU (with its own style fan) sitting around, so I tried installing that in the machine instead. Lo and behold, it came up working even using the old Linux install for the very different older motherboard. I installed a fresh copy of Linux on it, quickly modified fstab to get /home back, installed emacs, got webmin running, and turned on Samba. Everything went very smoothly, not least because I had just done most of it over the weekend when I installed the new hard drive on the machine.
Then I opened the drive on my Mac, grabbed one of the MP3 directories ("Reavy"), and dragged it over to iTunes. It started sucking in the files... and then everything froze. Rebooted the system, tried again, same result. Rebooted a third time, tried rsyncing the files, same result.
Anyone have any pointers to good resources for debugging hardware crashes on Linux boxes?
Well, I didn't have a spare fan for that system on hand, and I couldn't see any way to get at it other than taking the motherboard out. But I did have a spare motherboard and CPU (with its own style fan) sitting around, so I tried installing that in the machine instead. Lo and behold, it came up working even using the old Linux install for the very different older motherboard. I installed a fresh copy of Linux on it, quickly modified fstab to get /home back, installed emacs, got webmin running, and turned on Samba. Everything went very smoothly, not least because I had just done most of it over the weekend when I installed the new hard drive on the machine.
Then I opened the drive on my Mac, grabbed one of the MP3 directories ("Reavy"), and dragged it over to iTunes. It started sucking in the files... and then everything froze. Rebooted the system, tried again, same result. Rebooted a third time, tried rsyncing the files, same result.
Anyone have any pointers to good resources for debugging hardware crashes on Linux boxes?