Re: Needing help fixing an irix boot disk

[Pete Turnbull via cctalk]

On 05/07/2018 10:08, Mazzini Alessandro via cctalk wrote:


Long story short, a while ago I cloned the hd of a Fuel I got given (6.5.16, 
original installation from an iconic car designer, Bertone), and all was ok. 
The original hd was then left in place but unpowered, the cloned was upgraded 
to 6.5.22 to maintain the classic applications.



getting more puzzled... the boot drive appeared readable, so why the scsi hard 
errors.

Then I simply reconnected the original hd, and from that one boots with no 
issues... result, probably the last or both shutdowns while the Audigy was 
plugged were not so clean.



Bottom line, anyone ever got in this situation and has some tips on what to do ?


I had something similar happen to one of my Indys running 6.5.22 
recently, and I ended up running standalone fx from an installation CD 
to map out the corrupt sector and then reinstalling.  That wasn't too 
bad because I have all the necessary 6.5.x CDs as images on a server on 
the same network (so no tedious swapping of a dozen or so CDs) and I 
have a "selections" file for inst, with the things I need.


But since you have a bootable drive, you might be able to bring the 
system up with both drives installed, booting from the 6.5.16 drive, and 
running fsck over the (unmounted) 6.5.22 drive.  If that doesn't work, 
you could probably still create a selections file from the unbootable 
drive which you could use in the worst case of having to re-install.


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Pete
Pete Turnbull

Needing help fixing an irix boot disk

[Mazzini Alessandro via cctalk]

Hello,

Long story short, a while ago I cloned the hd of a Fuel I got given (6.5.16, 
original installation from an iconic car designer, Bertone), and all was ok. 
The original hd was then left in place but unpowered, the cloned was upgraded 
to 6.5.22 to maintain the classic applications. Fast forward to the present :
Had the smart idea to install an Audigy 2 zs pro ( the kind with the external 
box, and that takes current using a molex from the computer psu - I used the 
rail going also to the boot hd ), and the Fuel started acting weird ... not 
turning on unless pressing more than once the power button, one of the front 
fans speeding up and down and even stopping, Display Expander I/O errors  ( I 
should note that from the moment I got the Fuel I had to disable env since the 
I2C on the V10 board is acting crazy ).

I managed to boot / use it a couple of times... then it didn't go past the Prom.

Removed the Audigy , after a while ( and 2 times left disconnected from the 
wall outlet for a bit ) it sort of restarted to power on consistently on 
pressing the button, but it always ended stopping at the prom splashscreen

Invoking a manual boot resulted in this
https://snag.gy/eMHafJ.jpg

after going in circles for a bit, had the brilliant idea of doing this from the 
prom sash :
https://snag.gy/eTzqEP.jpg

thus getting more puzzled... the boot drive appeared readable, so why the scsi 
hard errors.

Then I simply reconnected the original hd, and from that one boots with no 
issues... result, probably the last or both shutdowns while the Audigy was 
plugged were not so clean.
Ideally I would prefer not to clone + upgrade + readd programs again, and I 
think that repairing the damaged installation would be better especially in 
case it happens again in the future. I've tried to ask around, but I've not got 
any hint, and if there was something in an old neko thread... well, we all know 
that those are unavailable.

Bottom line, anyone ever got in this situation and has some tips on what to do ?

Thanks in advance,

Alessandro