From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 3 22:33:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E1FC16A407 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 22:33:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A5C43CA3 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 22:32:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x37so3999792nfc for ; Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:33:06 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Y7Ebjq6cNxSCv4DlYffEa2eJBISUVOViYjeo30Scom2Ln1msnSgUl8Ym1iqm6BbRDSmMVYDyV3FS3PoEFYrW6zyDIP3QKzFbu3eggctSjmnj1z2/7frrSH+oJkWDygv1rBVxSJAZTQpysxZscBFSZ0+4psg+Ls3WRmW3c8Ll1a0= Received: by 10.82.172.15 with SMTP id u15mr647772bue.1165185186212; Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:33:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.175.1 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 14:33:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 16:33:06 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E1clav_Haisman?=" In-Reply-To: <45734BC7.200@sh.cvut.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <45734BC7.200@sh.cvut.cz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to boot on ASUS Vintage-PE1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:33:08 -0000 On 12/3/06, V=E1clav Haisman wrote: > Hi, > I have been given new hw to move one of our servers to, the ASUS Vintage-= PE1. > Last two times I have been changing hw for the server I only needed to mo= ve > disks to new box and everything worked, the OS booted without any > complications. Not this time with this new hw. When I put the disks into = the > Vintage-PE1 hw, the loader doesn't find the root and kernel. In fact, the > loader's lsdev does not show any partitions/devices besides the raw disks= . > There are two 200G Seagate disks in GEOM Mirror. The OS is FreeBSD 6.1. > > Is the Vintage-PE1 hw known to have problems with FreeBSD (or vice versa)= ? (I > googled but I did not find anything significant.) > >From asus's page about the vintage pe1: : Recover Pro is an always available recovery tool. It : stores user data, applications and the operating : system in the host-protected area of the hard drive. : Users can easily recover system to their original : factory conditions or to a more recent state without : restore CDs. No need to worry about losing data : due to virus attacks. Perhaps this has something to do with it? If such a thing were to overwrite the partition table(s) you would have a very unbootable system. --=20 --