Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:11:32 -0400 From: Brad Mettee <bmettee@pchotshots.com> To: "Hans F. Nordhaug" <Hans.F.Nordhaug@hiMolde.no>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Second disks causes invalid partition when booting/no disks found in sysinstall Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20090707190954.02d6ce88@mail.pchotshots.com> In-Reply-To: <20090707215153.GA16007@hiMolde.no> References: <20090707162754.GA13174@hiMolde.no> <20090707162754.GA13174@hiMolde.no>
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What happens if you put the drive on a secondary controller? (Maybe use the CD-ROM drive cable) With the drive on a separate cable, you should be able to avoid any problems that cable select or jumpers may be causing. At 05:51 PM 7/7/2009, Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: >* Hans F. Nordhaug <Hans.F.Nordhaug@hiMolde.no> [2009-07-07]: > > Hi! > > > > I have been running FreeBSD happily for several years on the same old > > hardware. 2 weeks ago when I was on vacation one of the disks started > > to have problems, and 5 days ago the disk just stopped working - far > > too many read failures to get anything mounted. I got a new disk > > yesterday (finally home from vacation). The problems started when I > > tried to install FreeBSD 7.2 - I got "no disks found" from sysinstall > > all the time. The BIOS reported happily the new master and the old > > slave/hard drive. OK, I just disconnected the old slave and was able to > > install FreeBSD on the master. I was thinking/hoping that with the OS > > in place I should be able to read the old slave (which was one single > > UFS partition). Anyway, if I connect the old slave/hard drive I get > > "invalid partition" when booting - argh! > > > > What should/can I do? If I run the Live CD (livefs), I of course get > > "no disks found" ... >[cut] > >I did some more tests and: > >1) Using only the old slave/hard drive works - it's detected by > sysinstall. (The new drive is disconected.) >2) I replaced the FreeBSD boot manager with the standard boot manager, > but still the FreeBSD boot manager kicked in unless I disconnected > the old slave. This seems to indicate that the old slave also has > a FreeBSD boot manager installed... > >The next obvious step (to me) is to remove the FreeBSD boot manager >from the old slave. I guess I can do it with sysinstall, but how? >The data on the disk can not be lost... Is there other things I should >try? > >Regards, >Hans Nordhaug >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Brad Mettee PC HotShots, Inc. Baltimore, MD (410) 426-7617 -> Let us bring out the *Power* of your PCs. <- -> Custom Business Software Solutions since 1991 <- visit http://www.pchotshots.com for information about our company.
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