Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:13:43 -0700 From: "Robert L Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot failed - all data lost Message-ID: <OF0F37B5F8.83DBC966-ON88256C10.0073E7F8@wr.usgs.gov>
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Is this a SCSI disk?
I had this same problem last night, it turned out to be a bad SCSI cable.=20
The disks were found on boot and the SCSI bios could see them on the chain =
but when it tried to boot it kept saying no disk found. I booted a DOS=20
disk with fdisk and it also couldn't see the disk. I almost trashed the=20
drive. On a whim I replaced the cable and it everything worked. It turns=20
out the scsi cable had a bad active terminator. I replaced the cable and=20
everything came back.
If your system is scsi, it's something to try anyway.
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Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter=5Froth@hotmail.com>
Sent by: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
08/09/2002 12:35 PM
Please respond to freebsd-stable
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To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
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Subject: Re: Boot failed - all data lost
On Aug 08 at 10:32, Bj=F6rn Patrick Swift spoke:
> 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!
Get your disk back from Dell.
Then try testdisk or gpart.
-Hanspeter
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