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

[Jonas Frey]

I guess you dont get any more console output since after that last line
the system will send all output to VGA only. Before the output was
handled by the bios and redirected to the com port.
So (i guess) you have to make the freebsd installation to send all
console output to the correct com-port...probably ttyd0.
See:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/console-server/freebsd.html

Regards,
Jonas

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 17:42, Phill Jolliffe wrote:
> 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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