Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 16:33:06 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E1clav_Haisman?=" <V.Haisman@sh.cvut.cz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to boot on ASUS Vintage-PE1 Message-ID: <d7195cff0612031433m15eea315jbf4445fa1dc97db7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45734BC7.200@sh.cvut.cz> References: <45734BC7.200@sh.cvut.cz>
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On 12/3/06, V=E1clav Haisman <V.Haisman@sh.cvut.cz> 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 --
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