Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 18:27:54 +0200 From: "Hans F. Nordhaug" <Hans.F.Nordhaug@hiMolde.no> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Second disks causes invalid partition when booting/no disks found in sysinstall Message-ID: <20090707162754.GA13174@hiMolde.no>
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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.
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