From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 7 21:51:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A381065670 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:51:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Hans.F.Nordhaug@hiMolde.no) Received: from sil.himolde.no (sil.hiMolde.no [158.38.83.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD4B98FC19 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:51:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Hans.F.Nordhaug@hiMolde.no) Received: from malle.himolde.no ([158.38.68.22]) by sil.himolde.no with InterScan Message Security Suite; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:51:54 +0200 Received: from harr.himolde.no (harr.hiMolde.no [158.38.68.20])by malle.himolde.no (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n67Lpr5C018807for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 23:51:54 +0200 Received: from harr.himolde.no (harr.himolde.no [127.0.0.1])by harr.himolde.no (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n67Lpruk016074for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 23:51:53 +0200 Received: (from nordhaug@localhost)by harr.himolde.no (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id n67LprLr016073for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 23:51:53 +0200 Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 23:51:53 +0200 From: "Hans F. Nordhaug" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090707215153.GA16007@hiMolde.no> References: <20090707162754.GA13174@hiMolde.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090707162754.GA13174@hiMolde.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-imss-version: 2.054 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-approveListMatch: *@*.no Subject: Re: Second disks causes invalid partition when booting/no disks found in sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:51:57 -0000 * Hans F. Nordhaug [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