[j-nsp] Hard Disk Replacement - M5

[Miroslav Georgiev]

Start a shell and you will have dd there. After that you can do request 
system partition.
If you have an export-cf[512|1024] version of junos you can use it too.

On 11.01.2011 14:19, Vladislav Vasilev wrote:
> I guess I am going for the PCMCIA method.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> V.Vasilev
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Alex<alex.arseniev at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> I believe if you reinstall FreeBSD on this disk (minimal install will do) it
>> will be recognised by "request system partition".
>> HTH
>> Regards
>> Alex
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vladislav Vasilev"
>> <vvasilev at vvasilev.net>
>> To:<juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:13 AM
>> Subject: [j-nsp] Hard Disk Replacement - M5
>>
>>
>>      
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am trying to replace a hard drive on an old M5 running JunOS 6.2.
>>> The RE installs the drive which can be seen from the following output:
>>>
>>> root at M5>  show system boot-messages
>>>
>>> ad0: 91MB<SanDisk SDCFB-96>  [734/8/32] at ata0-master using PIO1
>>> ad1: 11513MB<IBM-DARA-212000>  [23392/16/63] at ata0-slave using UDMA33
>>> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>>>
>>> The problem is that the RE won't partition it:
>>>
>>> root at M5>  request system partition hard-disk
>>> mount: /dev/ad1s1e: Device not configured
>>> ERROR: Can't access hard disk, aborting partition.
>>>
>>> The hard drive had been erased with dd.
>>>
>>> Has anyone come across this problem? Am I missing something here?
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> V. Vasilev
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
>>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
>>>
>>>        
>>
>>      
> _______________________________________________
> juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
>
>
>    

-- 
Regards,,,
Miroslav Georgiev
SpectrumNet Jsc.
+(359 2)4890604
+(359 2)4890619