Server down, and will not boot up

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:51:20PM -0500, Ming Tang wrote:

> Here is the message when I turn on the computer after Memory test is ok:
> 
> 
>     Verifying DMI Pool Data ....
> 
>     F1    FreeBSD
> 
>     Default: F1
>     Invalid slice
>     Invalid slice
>     No /boot/loader
> 
>     >> FreeBSD/i386 Boot
>     Default:0:ad(0,a)/kernel
>     Boot:
>     Invalid slice
>     No /kernel
> 
>     >> FreeBSD/i386 Boot
>     Default:0:ad(0,a)/kernel
>     Boot:
> 
> 
> It stopped here forever, but I could hear 5-6 relay clicking sound inside the computer box.

That's pretty clearly a hard drive failure.  Still, if that machine
has been running continuously since the days of 4.2-RELEASE it hasn't
done badly at all.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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