Minor disaster

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
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> But, the usual source of this is a hardware failure. Temporarily pull SATA
> cables out of the internal disks, see if the system goes up until the point
> it complains about no boot devices being available. If still nothing, RAM
> sticks is the next suspect. Check your motherboard's manual to see which RAM
> sticks can be pulled, hopefully you have 2 or 4 RAM sticks, and the
> motherboard can come up with just one or two. Remove half the RAM sticks, if
> still no dice, pull the remaining half, and replace them with the first
> half, and if still no dice, you've pretty much ruled out all user-
> replaceable components at this point. Without any external USB devices
> plugged in, and without the hard drives online, and with alternative RAM
> sticks, your motherboard is bricked. Pull the hard drives, replace the
> motherboard, drop the hard drives in, try to boot them.
>
Turns out it was a dead SSD - / or /home (TG), but it's huge one that
might just be under warranty;\\SOLVED, thanks all.

MRZ