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" ... Regards, Hans Nordhaug PS1! The old setup was running FreeBSD 6.3. PS2! The slave was used for back-up so it's kind of essential that I'm able to read it... PS3! I install the FreeBSD boot manager, but I guess that it doesn't make any difference. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
