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

[Felipe Zanchet Grazziotin]

Hi,

just to keep this information archived to others, even it sounds obvious:
don't try to boot FreeBSD directly at Juniper. :)

What I did to have it working?

Got HD back to PC, pkg_add on jinstall package, once it asked me to reboot,
turn off PC ('halt' does it fine).

Put HD on RE, have it boot on Juniper and you are set. It will upgrade to
Juniper's kernel and in a few minutes you will have a functional M7i again.

Thanks everybody!



On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Felipe Zanchet Grazziotin <
felipe at starbyte.net> wrote:

> Jonas,
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Jonas Frey <jf at probe-networks.de> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>
>>
> thanks for your tips, but already had changed /boot/loader.conf to use
> 'comconsole', before that (vidconsole) I had nothing after Juniper's BIOS.
> And ttyd0 was enabled too.
>
> Using a PC, FreeBSD 4.4 boot messages after the one I got are:
>
> "sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x100>
> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> sio0: type 16550A, console
> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> ppc0: parallel port not found.
> ad0: 28615MB <VBOX HARDDISK> [58140/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
> acd0: DVD-ROM <VBOX CD-ROM> at ata0-slave using PIO4
> acd1: DVD-ROM <VBOX CD-ROM> at ata1-master using PIO4
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> swapon: adding /dev/ad0s1b as swap device
> Automatic boot in progress..."
>
> Maybe it stuck trying to create virtual consoles on serial interface? I
> really don't know.
>
> As in Phill's idea, would be great if I had a spare M7i. Or even a spare
> RE.
> Not my case here, unfortunately.
>
>
>
>
>
>> 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
>>
>>
> Anyway, will take a real read on those documents. Maybe there's some
> important flag I'm ignoring.
>
>
>
>> [ snip ]
>>
>>
>>
> Thankfully,
> Felipe
>