Archive for June, 2015

AWS FreeBSD instance won’t come up. Screams for manual fsck.

This is a short write up if after a reset or a reboot your FreeBSD (or Linux) instance doesn’t come online, stalls and “aws ec2 get-console-output” returns something like that among its lines: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Just power-off the faulty instance either from Web interface or using cli: aws ec2 stop-instances –instance your_instance_id […]

Posted on June 27, 2015 at 4:07 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · 7 Comments
In: FreeBSD

How to power off USP-V when it doesn’t want to

In the era of VSP G1000 this post may sound dated but I still hope that it would help some poor sole in the same situation I was sometime ago. The task was laughably simple: power off USP-V, power it up just to make sure it still could boot up flawlessly and shut it down […]

Posted on June 3, 2015 at 8:15 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: HDS