Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:42:34 +1000 From: "dylan" <dylan@dragnet.com.au> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RFI : Hard Disk Rescue Message-ID: <00f901bf97af$41392bc0$636129cb@dragnet.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi there, I have not needed help with BSD so much as I do now. This morning I was greeted with messages regarding read errors for a second HD (wd1) I had installed a week earlier. I fsck'ed a few times which reported unreadable sectors for the problem HD and so I physically removed the drive from the IDE with intent to give it back to the seller. fsck also showed me that wd0, the primary HD was working ok with a little fragmentation. Now when I boot up it gives me this - Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0...OK Invalid Partition Invalid Partition No /boot/loader >>FreeBSD/i386/BOOT Default:0:wd(0,a)/kernel boot: Invalid partition No /kernel Of course, I can't boot anything from here because of 'Invalid Partition', not a GENERIC kernel, not an old compile... nothing. I am not new to unix but I am new to BSD and while I have read the docs, HOWTO's, handbook, etc etc I think there might be something I am missing.. getting this fixed concerns me but knowing what I did wrong concerns me more. Is there something I should have done before I removed the secondary HD? Is there a reason why I am getting invalid partition when booting when I can run fdisk (post install config from cd) and it shows me that the drive is partitioned correctly with the usual 3 partitions, the largest being the freebsd native type. I am sorry to clog the mailing list with such an annoying error, I would fdisk and start over but this is for a server machine I have been working on for several weeks. Starting over could mean literally months of coding/reconfiguring due to my inexcusably lax backups. (fellow admins please take pity!) Please forward help to my reply address (dylan@dragnet.com.au) and I shall post the solution(s) summary back to the mailing list. Cheers, Dylan O'Donnell dylan@dragnet.com.au DRAGNET INTERNET SERVICES ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.dragnet.com.au/ Address: 510 Elizabeth St. Albury, NSW 2640 Toll Free: 1800 069 050 Phone: (02) 60 214 100 Fax: (02) 60 213 144 [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Hi there, </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>I have not needed help with BSD so much as I do now. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>This morning I was greeted with messages regarding read errors for a second HD (wd1) I had installed a week earlier. I fsck'ed a few times which reported unreadable sectors for the problem HD and so I physically removed the drive from the IDE with intent to give it back to the seller. fsck also showed me that wd0, the primary HD was working ok with a little fragmentation. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Now when I boot up it gives me this - </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0...OK</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Invalid Partition</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Invalid Partition</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>No /boot/loader</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>>>FreeBSD/i386/BOOT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Default:0:wd(0,a)/kernel</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>boot:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Invalid partition</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>No /kernel </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Of course, I can't boot anything from here because of 'Invalid Partition', not a GENERIC kernel, not an old compile... nothing. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>I am not new to unix but I am new to BSD and while I have read the docs, HOWTO's, handbook, etc etc I think there might be something I am missing.. getting this fixed concerns me but knowing what I did wrong concerns me more. Is there something I should have done before I removed the secondary HD? Is there a reason why I am getting invalid partition when booting when I can run fdisk (post install config from cd) and it shows me that the drive is partitioned correctly with the usual 3 partitions, the largest being the freebsd native type. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>I am sorry to clog the mailing list with such an annoying error, I would fdisk and start over but this is for a server machine I have been working on for several weeks. Starting over could mean literally months of coding/reconfiguring due to my inexcusably lax backups. (fellow admins please take pity!)</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Please forward help to my reply address (<A href="mailto:dylan@dragnet.com.au">dylan@dragnet.com.au</A>) and I shall post the solution(s) summary back to the mailing list.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Cheers, </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Dylan O'Donnell<BR><A href="mailto:dylan@dragnet.com.au">dylan@dragnet.com.au</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>DRAGNET INTERNET SERVICES<BR>-------------------------------------------------------<BR><A href="http://www.dragnet.com.au/">http://www.dragnet.com.au/</A>; <BR>Address: 510 Elizabeth St. Albury, NSW 2640 <BR>Toll Free: 1800 069 050 <BR>Phone: (02) 60 214 100 <BR>Fax: (02) 60 213 144 <BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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