I am trying to clone an old 10gig hd with SCO Unix. The drive is going bad. I purchased a 20gig and used Acronis to copy the drive, however, I get the "boot not found", "Cannot open", "Stage 1 boot failure: error lloading hd(40)/boot" message. I found the error msg on docsrv.sco.com and tried to follow their instructions as it says the boot is missing. I put the old drive back in and made the emergency disks (boot and filesystem). I made a system specific set of emergency disk and I also tried the generic. If follow the instructions about the error message, I enter fd(60)unix.Z root=hd(42), but I get a system error about the hd(42) If I just hit enter and not type the above command, the system boots from the floppy but the command "umoun /stand" does not find the filesystem. Is there a product on the market that will clone a unix drive without having to encounter these types of problems? How can i copy information from this drive before it finally goes out on me?
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Boot not found error
- Thread starter bigt500
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How about booting from the system specific floppy and using mount /dev/hd00 /mnt ? Not sure with your version if it will mount that way but if it does then you will get access through /mnt.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
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Next would be to look in the floppy /dev directory and see what hd devices are mentioned. Depending on what version you are dealing with it could be hd0root.
Do you know what version you are dealing with? Do you know what kind of drives you are dealing with?
And possibly next to try a repair fsck but probably need to have somebody else to advise on that. There may be some version specific requirements I wouldn't know about.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
Do you know what version you are dealing with? Do you know what kind of drives you are dealing with?
And possibly next to try a repair fsck but probably need to have somebody else to advise on that. There may be some version specific requirements I wouldn't know about.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
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Running from the emergency boot floppy set what comes up with
l /dev/hd*
Because it is generic there may be nothing there. A hardware specific set would have the proper device pointers to get you access to the hard drive.
The aim of this is to get the proper device name to allow fschk to run on the hard drive.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
l /dev/hd*
Because it is generic there may be nothing there. A hardware specific set would have the proper device pointers to get you access to the hard drive.
The aim of this is to get the proper device name to allow fschk to run on the hard drive.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
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