From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 8 12:36:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawkins.cba.uni.edu (hawkins.cba.uni.edu [134.161.248.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D966F37BB99 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 12:36:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk2@hawkins.cba.uni.edu) Received: from hawkins.cba.uni.edu (really [127.0.0.1]) by hawkins.cba.uni.edu via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident hawk2 using rfc1413) id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:36:19 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bsd can't see disk (and neither can linux) Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 14:36:18 -0500 From: hawk2@hawkins.cba.uni.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After about a year and a half, suddenly my maxtor 8.4G drive is unusable by both freebsd and linux. I have a small linux partition on the first partition/slice, windows 3.1 for the kids on the second, and freebsd on the third. The FreeBSD is 3.4, while the linux is about a two years out of date debian with ufs support. For several months, the bsd bootloader has been unable to remember that it should boot from the third rather than the first, and had to be manually told to boot from the third on every boot. Linux continued to work during that period. Suddenly, freebsd can no longer boot at all. It fails to find the slice when attempting to switch the root device. Booting from the installation disks returns the message that no disk was found when I try to mount/partition. Linux has a similar behavior, but doesn't pause long enough for me to see the messages :( I get a kernel panic during boot, which seems to be for failing to find the device it is trying to mount. It has the same response when lilo is told to boot single user. The bottom line on the behavior is that windows works normally, and that the bootloaders for both *nices are able to read the disk but that both *nices are unable to find the hard drive at mount time. I've rechecked and reconnected the cables a couple of times. Any ideas? And if all else fails, is there a dos or windows program that can read a UFS partition? NsoOthing critical is on the machine--except, of course, my completed tax return. For the first time in over ten years I was ready on the regular deadline, and had to file an extension. (OK, a couple of other critical things, but they're backed up in multiple places. ) rick, perplexed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message