An update on the problems of the boot sector disks.
So far, I have not found any errors on the guilty disks from one
computer... the Seagate Tools for checking their (& other) disks show no
errors on the disks themselves. I haven't finished with them all, yet as
I am trying to set up a couple of FB
Ian Smith wrote:
[snip]
>
> Smells like flakey hardware .. intermittent, inexplicable glitches. It
> might survive hours on one workload, minutes on another, no sense to it?
>
> > All that I am seeing is that there is either a problem with the bios
> > (which I even reinstalled and that change
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:41:48 +1000 (EST), Ian Smith
wrote:
> Smells like flakey hardware .. intermittent, inexplicable glitches. It
> might survive hours on one workload, minutes on another, no sense to it?
I could guess defective RAM here... I suggest running memtest for some
hours, just to b
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, PJ wrote:
> Subject: Re: boot sector f*ed
>
> Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:54:31PM -0400, PJ wrote:
> >
> >> Well, I've been looking at the disk(s) and I have found some interesting
> >> "sh
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:12:27PM -0400, PJ typed:
> Ruben de Groot wrote:
> > Hi PJ,
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ typed:
> >
> >> I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give
> >> some insight on what is see from this end:
> >>
> >
> > Yo
PJ wrote:
> Ruben de Groot wrote:
>> Hi PJ,
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ typed:
>>
>>> I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give
>>> some insight on what is see from this end:
>>>
>> You probably won't get much helpfull response. When trou
> Right now I'm just fixing up a new set up of 7.2 on another disk and
> we'll see what that does. Then I will re-setup the files I had recoverd,
> see if they work and then do a last and final install of everything and
> see if that works. And if there is a problem then, then I will know for
> sur
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:22:23 -0400, PJ wrote:
> How about 7zip instead of gzip? does better compression, from what I
> learned ???
Possible, but gzip is part of the OS, while 7zip needs to be
installed manually. On a live system CD (FreeBSD, FreeSBIE)
is is usually not present. Always keep in
Ruben de Groot wrote:
> Hi PJ,
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ typed:
>
>> I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give
>> some insight on what is see from this end:
>>
>
> You probably won't get much helpfull response. When troubleshooting, it's
Hi PJ,
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ typed:
> I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give
> some insight on what is see from this end:
You probably won't get much helpfull response. When troubleshooting, it's
allways best to try to break down the proble
>
> For your systems that are running well, get an external harddisk that is at
> least as big as the one in the machine. On my website I have explained how to
> prepare this disk in somewhat greater detail:
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html#usb
>
> Then use the dump(8) command to m
Roland Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:58:33PM -0400, PJ wrote:
>
>> Roland Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ wrote:
>>>
>>>
I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give
some insight on what is see from
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:58:33PM -0400, PJ wrote:
> Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ wrote:
> >
> >> I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give
> >> some insight on what is see from this end:
> >>
> >> Ok, I've had all night to (
Roland Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ wrote:
>
>> I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give
>> some insight on what is see from this end:
>>
>> Ok, I've had all night to (subliminally) think about all this and
>> actually, I am tending m
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:53:06AM -0400, PJ wrote:
> I apologize for the lengthy explanation below, but perhaps it will give
> some insight on what is see from this end:
>
> Ok, I've had all night to (subliminally) think about all this and
> actually, I am tending more toward problems in FreeBSD.
Roland Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:54:31PM -0400, PJ wrote:
>
>> Well, I've been looking at the disk(s) and I have found some interesting
>> "shei**e" that doesn't make sense.
>> 1. The fbsd minimal installation that I had set up for recovery of the
>> previous crash does not boot.
Roland Smith wrote:
[sni[p]
> - Powersupply: check the voltages (preferably under load) with a
> monitoring app like mbmon. If that's not possible, check in the BIOS. A
> failing powersupply can give weird unreproducable errors. If you have
> ever heard a popping noise from the machine it
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:54:31PM -0400, PJ wrote:
> Well, I've been looking at the disk(s) and I have found some interesting
> "shei**e" that doesn't make sense.
> 1. The fbsd minimal installation that I had set up for recovery of the
> previous crash does not boot... Now, why in Hades is that? I
Roland Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 07:34:49AM -0400, PJ wrote:
>
>> I'm actually at the stage of doing the save/copy/transfer or whatever
>> you can call it: here's what I am thinking and on which I need
>> clarification.
>> I ran HDD regenerator and it immediately flagged the very fi
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 07:34:49AM -0400, PJ wrote:
> I'm actually at the stage of doing the save/copy/transfer or whatever
> you can call it: here's what I am thinking and on which I need
> clarification.
> I ran HDD regenerator and it immediately flagged the very first sector
> as being Bad.
Is
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, PJ wrote:
> Ian Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:52:29 +0200 Polytropon wrote:
[..]
> > > Let's assume ad0 is your source disk and ad1 the target disk.
> > >
> > > You can use the sysinstall tool to slice and partition the target
> > > disk. You can create t
Ian Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:52:29 +0200 Polytropon wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:34:13 -0400, PJ
> > wrote: > I've got another disk about the same size on the machine and
> > I'm > wonderiing how could I transfer the whole shebang to it?
> >
> > Maybe an 1:1 copy using d
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:52:29 +0200 Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:34:13 -0400, PJ
> wrote: > I've got another disk about the same size on the machine and
> I'm > wonderiing how could I transfer the whole shebang to it?
>
> Maybe an 1:1 copy using dd with a bs=1m would work.
M
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 08:19:24PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:31:52 -0400, PJ wrote:
> > Sorry for my ignorance, but what language is that? :-) What's "dd with
> > a bs=1m"?
>
> That's English + UNIX, at least it should be. :-)
>
> I could have written "dd with a bs of 1
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:31:52 -0400, PJ wrote:
> Sorry for my ignorance, but what language is that? :-) What's "dd with
> a bs=1m"?
That's English + UNIX, at least it should be. :-)
I could have written "dd with a bs of 1m", which does simply mean that
the program dd should be called with the pa
Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:34:13 -0400, PJ wrote:
>
>> I've got another disk about the same size on the machine and I'm
>> wonderiing how could I transfer the whole shebang to it?
>>
>
> Maybe an 1:1 copy using dd with a bs=1m would work.
>
Sorry for my ignorance, but wh
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:09:38 +0100, chris scott wrote:
> Dumping is all very well and good. However if you want daily or hourly
> backups etc it is very costly. Thats why our in house system at work is
> based around rsync and zfs
That's of course true. Another option is using cpdup from ports,
e
2009/8/11 Polytropon
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:34:13 -0400, PJ wrote:
> > I've got another disk about the same size on the machine and I'm
> > wonderiing how could I transfer the whole shebang to it?
>
> Maybe an 1:1 copy using dd with a bs=1m would work.
>
>
>
> > Would doing a minimum 7.2 insta
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:34:13 -0400, PJ wrote:
> I've got another disk about the same size on the machine and I'm
> wonderiing how could I transfer the whole shebang to it?
Maybe an 1:1 copy using dd with a bs=1m would work.
> Would doing a minimum 7.2 install be enough, followed by copying all
Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to PJ :
>
>
>> I just finished setting up 7.2 with all my programs installed,
>> configured & working fine with recovered files all working fine and just
>> as I boot up to start backing up everything... WHAM... the boot-up
>> kind-of hobbles and boots up.
>> I am
In response to PJ :
> I just finished setting up 7.2 with all my programs installed,
> configured & working fine with recovered files all working fine and just
> as I boot up to start backing up everything... WHAM... the boot-up
> kind-of hobbles and boots up.
> I am called away from the computer
I just finished setting up 7.2 with all my programs installed,
configured & working fine with recovered files all working fine and just
as I boot up to start backing up everything... WHAM... the boot-up
kind-of hobbles and boots up.
I am called away from the computer and when I return - goodie, goo
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