Restore t1/t2 Date: 2011/10 On 2011/09/19, both t1 and t2 harddisk failed at the summit. T1hilo was rebuilt with new motherboard, cpu, etc. And a complete reinstall of the OS (centos 4.9) Then t1/t2 was restore using the t1hilo image. 0. BIOS notes from previous installation: setup bios to trigger warning on CPU over temperature and CPU fan error. setup boot device order: dvd, harddisk 1. Prep harddisk New partition scheme is: /dev/hdb1 - / 20 GB - restored from t1hilo backup. /dev/hdb2 - /r2 20 GB - exta boot partition. /dev/hdb3 - /aux 20 GB - aux parition (/home, /catalogs). /dev/hdb4 - /aux1 rest - unused. Format the drives: mkfs.ext3 -v -m 3 /dev/hdb1 (do all the partitions) 2. Restore boot dvd in 'linux rescue' mode. mount 128.171.110.145:/irtf.backup /irtf.backup mount /dev/hdb1 /b1 cd /b1 restore rvf /irtf.backup/HOST/YYMMDD.root.zdump mount /dev/hdb3 /b3 cd /b1 restore rvf /irtf.backup/HOST/YYMMDD.aux.zdump 2. setup grup /b1/sbin/grub > root (hd0,0) note: hdb1 is hd1,0 > find /boot/grub/stage1 > setup (hd0) This command installs GRUB on MBR. 3. configure ethernet /etc/hosts /etc/sysconfig/network /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/fstab /etc/X11/xorg.conf