I stupidly made a remote update (kernel included) with reboot, and the system did not come up.
Apparently, kernel updates modify MBR. Now I am locked from my server, so my logs will be delayed until
Monday.
What would be better: configure SATA disks as IDE or AHCI?
The best, I think, is to add a small IDE disk to boot from (rather than booting from raid). This will never fail.
One of the issues ("too large" 2.7gb raid the installer refuses to create) is related to/same as
https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 543838
I stupidly made a remote update (kernel included) with reboot, and the system did not come up.
Apparently, kernel updates modify MBR. Now I am locked from my server, so my logs will be delayed until
Monday.
What would be better: configure SATA disks as IDE or AHCI?
The best, I think, is to add a small IDE disk to boot from (rather than booting from raid). This will never fail.