Second disks causes invalid partition when booting/no disks
found in sysinstall
Hans F. Nordhaug
Hans.F.Nordhaug at hiMolde.no
Tue Jul 7 21:51:57 UTC 2009
* Hans F. Nordhaug <Hans.F.Nordhaug at hiMolde.no> [2009-07-07]:
> Hi!
>
> I have been running FreeBSD happily for several years on the same old
> hardware. 2 weeks ago when I was on vacation one of the disks started
> to have problems, and 5 days ago the disk just stopped working - far
> too many read failures to get anything mounted. I got a new disk
> yesterday (finally home from vacation). The problems started when I
> tried to install FreeBSD 7.2 - I got "no disks found" from sysinstall
> all the time. The BIOS reported happily the new master and the old
> slave/hard drive. OK, I just disconnected the old slave and was able to
> install FreeBSD on the master. I was thinking/hoping that with the OS
> in place I should be able to read the old slave (which was one single
> UFS partition). Anyway, if I connect the old slave/hard drive I get
> "invalid partition" when booting - argh!
>
> What should/can I do? If I run the Live CD (livefs), I of course get
> "no disks found" ...
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I did some more tests and:
1) Using only the old slave/hard drive works - it's detected by
sysinstall. (The new drive is disconected.)
2) I replaced the FreeBSD boot manager with the standard boot manager,
but still the FreeBSD boot manager kicked in unless I disconnected
the old slave. This seems to indicate that the old slave also has
a FreeBSD boot manager installed...
The next obvious step (to me) is to remove the FreeBSD boot manager
from the old slave. I guess I can do it with sysinstall, but how?
The data on the disk can not be lost... Is there other things I should
try?
Regards,
Hans Nordhaug
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