From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 3:36:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D75737B400; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 03:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.innn.is (ns1.innn.is [213.176.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2D943E86; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 03:36:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bjorn@innn.is) Received: from exchange01.is.innn.is (exchange.innn.is [213.176.158.3]) by ns1.innn.is (Postfix) with SMTP id D90221AB17; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:36:14 +0000 (GMT) content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Boot failed - all data lost X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:32:24 -0000 Message-ID: <09A1AF8C8C150046B67CE1A8DE345037042A06@exchange01.is.innn.is> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Boot failed - all data lost Thread-Index: AcI+x1fJQ+UAUS9NSQSE6adztfmZdA== From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Patrick_Swift?= To: , Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Two weeks ago I got the task of setting up a new mail server. The server = was a Dell PowerEdge 1500SE with a PERC raid controller. We used raid 5. = I'd been playing with the server for the last two week when I was about = to move the data over from the old server. Once the server was in place and had it's new IP address I decided to = reboot it once for the final time, just to make sure everything was in = order. While I was at it I entered the BIOS settings and disabled the = mouse, serial and lpt ports. But then, out of the blue, the machine = wouldn't boot. I tried restoring the BIOS' factory defaults but without = any luck. The first error I got was from the 'FreeBSD Boot Manager'. It started as = normally and displayed 'F? FreeBSD', but as I struck 'enter' I got a = 'boot failed' message. Then I rebooted the machine again and started = getting 'No operating system found' messages. I thought that maybe the = boot record had been damaged so I booted the FreeBSD 4.6-install CD and = opened fdisk - all space unused, no partitions found. No sign of my data = at all! After seeing this I took the machine to my local Dell vendor, but they = can't find anything wrong with the hardware and ask if this could be = software caused. The machine was running FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #3: Thu Aug 1 17:41:45 GMT = 2002. Anyone have an idea? Any more info I can give (remember, the machine is = at the Dell vendor) ? Thanks for your time, Bjorn Swift To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message