I mentioned in one of my earlier blogs that I would give information on to see boot messages using IPMI and SOL. These are the steps I would normally use. I’m using a Dell R610 server with a DRAC 5 Enterprise card installed. All the newer Dell servers have DRAC Read more…
Are you having a problem and don’t have a bootable CentOS DVD and no PIX server to get into rescue mode. Then try single user mode. In single user mode, your computer boots to runlevel 1. Your local file systems are mounted, but your network is not activated. You’ll have Read more…
When booting on a default installation of CentOS 7, after the grub boot loading menu displays the screen refreshes into a progress bar during the boot process. I’m used to seeing the detailed kernel output during the boot process to diagnose boot problems. So these are the steps to disable Read more…