Hmm, a Big Important Server was restarted by a client overnight - and never came back up. Opps!
These days of course, everything's virtual, so from the console I could see the problem - a "panic". Downloading a SystemRescueCd ISO and booting from that went smoothly, but sorting it fully out got me back into "chroot" - which I find fun.
Less fun was the complexity of GRUB2 - seems I haven't played with grub for a while because this is a different beast than I remember. Oh, and the main disk is LVM, which caused me some headache too.
Cause? Unclear, but lots of old kernels clogging up /boot was a BIG factor!
Now re-thinking my automated-upgrades strategy)
These days of course, everything's virtual, so from the console I could see the problem - a "panic". Downloading a SystemRescueCd ISO and booting from that went smoothly, but sorting it fully out got me back into "chroot" - which I find fun.
Less fun was the complexity of GRUB2 - seems I haven't played with grub for a while because this is a different beast than I remember. Oh, and the main disk is LVM, which caused me some headache too.
Cause? Unclear, but lots of old kernels clogging up /boot was a BIG factor!
Now re-thinking my automated-upgrades strategy)
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