[j-nsp] Manually installing JunOS on crashed HD (no CF available)

[Phill Jolliffe]

Maybe cheat? Put the old HDD in a working RE, (good CF), do an
install-media and from extern flash. The boot, do a "request system
snapshot"

Then put the HDD back in foobar'd RE and boot.



On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Felipe Zanchet Grazziotin
<felipe at starbyte.net> wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> thank you for all those answers on my previous question, about replacing M7i
> HD.
>
> Just replaced that crashed HD with an IDE one, notebook sized.
> Haven't found a SSD at good prices, still searching for one.
>
> In this new HD I've installed FreeBSD 4.4-mini (minimum install, just
> default options),
> trying to mimic partitions and options from other M7i box. To install I
> plugged the HD at
> one PC and did install there.
>
> Next step was booting at M7i board and going to do jinstall, but it freezes
> at boot time.
> I didn't try to run jinstall from outside the box.
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> I'm attaching output from serial, as I got it from M7i console.
>
> I'm not sure if this is any documented procedure. Is there any documentation
> on how to do this?
> I do not have a CF card available, so doing this at JunOS CLI isn't an
> option.
>
> Once more, thank you.
>
> Kind regards,
> Felipe
>
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Phill Jolliffe