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Ok, I was wondering if anyone out that had written a script that I could use in single-user mode on an G5 Xserve (10.3.x server) to run fsck on the boot drive and other volumes (like an XRAID).
The problem is I have multiple G5 Xserves that are running headless (no video card) and have Apple’s HW RAID card installed, so I can boot them using FW target disk mode.
Needless to say this makes it difficult to run diagnostics on them.
Basically I need a script that would automatically run fsck when the machine booted into single-user mode and then dump the results to a log file I could check later. It would be nice if it would also run fsck on other volumes than the boot volume since some of these xserves are connected to XRAIDs.
I thought i’d check before I wrote one myself.
Anybody ever see anything like this or have any ideas on how to write one?
According to Apple’s web site (and the documentation that comes with the card) their hardware RAID card does not have support for firewire target disk mode, and the drives hooked up to the card won’t show up when using FWTDM.
That being said… no I haven’t tried it. I guess I took them at face value, which is probably my mistake.
Basically my goal here is to find some way to run diagnostics on a headless server with a RAID card.
If I suppose I could boot it off an OS install CD, then use SA-SEARCHER to find it’s IP address, then SSH into the box, and try running fsck that way, but I was trying to automate the task for my “technically-challenged” clients.
Ideas? Suggestions… on either method mentioned above.
Do you have any info this netbook diagnostic image? Stuff like, where can I find it and how does it work? Thanks.
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