[j-nsp] Hard Disk Replacement - M5

Vladislav Vasilev vvasilev at vvasilev.net
Tue Jan 11 08:51:55 EST 2011


I tried that but it did not work either.

The "install-media" image did the job.

Thanks!

Regards,
V.Vasilev

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Miroslav Georgiev <mgeorgiev at spnet.net> wrote:
> 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
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