Re: Second disks causes invalid partition when booting/no disks found in sysinstall
* Brad Mettee bmet...@pchotshots.com [2009-07-08]: What happens if you put the drive on a secondary controller? (Maybe use the CD-ROM drive cable) OK, I tried it. With the drive on a separate cable, you should be able to avoid any problems that cable select or jumpers may be causing. It's the same problem. The old hard drive is detected as the secondary slave by the BIOS, but I still get invalid partition when booting. It's very frustrating. How can adding another drive make FreeBSD detect none of the drives? Before I tried putting the old drive on CD-ROM drive cable, I also entered fixit mode from the LiveFS CD and ran fdisk -B /dev/ad1 (when only the old slave/drive was connected). It didn't make any difference. What I really wanted to try was to remove the MBR completely from the old slave/drive ... Is there anything I can check/alter on the disks so I can use them at the same time ... Seperately the looked OK - the output from fdisk and disklabel looked sane. Regards, Hans At 05:51 PM 7/7/2009, Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: * Hans F. Nordhaug hans.f.nordh...@himolde.no [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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Second disks causes invalid partition when booting/no disks found in sysinstall
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 ... Regards, Hans Nordhaug PS1! The old setup was running FreeBSD 6.3. PS2! The slave was used for back-up so it's kind of essential that I'm able to read it... PS3! I install the FreeBSD boot manager, but I guess that it doesn't make any difference. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Second disks causes invalid partition when booting/no disks found in sysinstall
* Hans F. Nordhaug hans.f.nordh...@himolde.no [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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Second disks causes invalid partition when booting/no disks found in sysinstall
What happens if you put the drive on a secondary controller? (Maybe use the CD-ROM drive cable) With the drive on a separate cable, you should be able to avoid any problems that cable select or jumpers may be causing. At 05:51 PM 7/7/2009, Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: * Hans F. Nordhaug hans.f.nordh...@himolde.no [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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Brad Mettee PC HotShots, Inc. Baltimore, MD (410) 426-7617 - Let us bring out the *Power* of your PCs. - - Custom Business Software Solutions since 1991 - visit http://www.pchotshots.com for information about our company. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
