Same Hard Drive Different Box

[StardataMitel]

A new customer has had their Mxe die.
When i say die i mean , it doesn't boot past SDRAM CS1 March Test.

As the customer is in a hurry and had the money to spend, we are replacing the system and hoping to just move the hard drive from the old box to the new box.

As we did not install the system and came across it once it had already died, we are unsure of software release and obviously we have no back up.

Putting the hard drive in the new box, it will not load from the partition.
We have changed the file name to: /partition4/RTC8260

how ever we are still getting an error and the system reboots.
Below is a cut and past of the boot process leading to the error.
If someone could help me get the hard disk to boot in the new box or at least extract the data in a usable format from the hard disk. It will save me a lot of time and energy in building the system from scratch.
Thanks in advance.



MITEL SYSTEM ROM R3.0/6 May 26 2009 (83 - POWER_ON_RESET)

CCA Number : 56007690 RA.9
System Model : 00520001 F2000
CPU Model : 8280 R0a10
Reset Config : 04043640
Bus Clock (MHz) : 100
CPM Clock (MHz) : 250
Core Clock (MHz) : 450
Internal Memory Map : f0000000
Main Memory (MB) : 512
Local Memory (MB) : 0
Flash Memory (MB) : 2
MAC Address : 08000f4e346e
POST Bypass : 0
Watchdog Bypass : 0
Slot Id : 0

Starting POST...

SDRAM CS1 Data Bit Walk 1................... PASSED
SDRAM CS1 Data Bit Walk 0................... PASSED
SDRAM CS2 Data Bit Walk 1................... PASSED
SDRAM CS2 Data Bit Walk 0................... PASSED
SDRAM CS1 Address Walk 1................... PASSED
SDRAM CS1 Address Walk 0................... PASSED
SDRAM CS2 Address Walk 1................... PASSED
SDRAM CS2 Address Walk 0................... PASSED
SDRAM CS1 March Test........................ PASSED
SDRAM CS2 March Test........................ PASSED

Starting vxWorks...

Decompressing FPGA image...615412 bytes decompressed successfully

FPGA version 0002:6017 loaded












VxWorks System Boot


Copyright 1984-2002 Wind River Systems, Inc.





CPU: Mitel MMC-C PPC82XX F2000
Version: VxWorks5.5.2
BSP version: 3.0/6
Creation date: May 26 2009, 11:27:13




Press <SPACE><SPACE><SPACE> to stop auto-boot AFTER countdown starts...
<7><6><5><4><3><2><1><0>
auto-booting...


boot device : ata=0,0
unit number : 0
processor number : 0
file name : /partition4/RTC8260
inet on ethernet (e) : 192.168.1.2:ffffff00
gateway inet (g) : 192.168.1.1
user (u) : ftp
ftp password (pw) : @
flags (f) : 0x0
other (o) : motfcc

ataDrv: ataDriveInit failed on Channel 0 Device 0

Disk Configuration Started.
Creating block device for controller 0 drive 0... done.
Creating CBIO device for controller 0 drive 0... 0x1f25ba90 (tBoot): cbioWrapBlkDev: BLK_DEV pointer 0x1f7ffe40 appears invalid.
done.
0KB added to /partition1 partition
free disk space after partition 0 is 0KB
0KB added to /partition2 partition
free disk space after partition 1 is 0KB
0KB added to /partition3 partition
free disk space after partition 2 is 0KB
0KB added to /partition4 partition
free disk space after partition 3 is 0KB
Creating CBIO device for controller 0 drive 0... 0x1f25ba90 (tBoot): cbioWrapBlkDev: BLK_DEV pointer 0xdone.
1f7ffe40Attaching to appears invalid.
partition table for 4 partitions on controller 0 drive 0... 0x1f25ba90ERROR: In us (rAtaConfigExtendedtBoot() failed to at): tach to partitioncbioWrapBlkDev: BLK_DEV pointer 0x table0000000 for controll0er appears invalid.
0 drive 0.
Error loading file: errno = 0x850001.
Can't load boot file!!

 

[StardataMitel]

Probably should have said, No Redundant hard drive and No RAID controller.

 

[Mitel_specialist]

Try changing file name /partition4/RTC8260 to /partition1/RTC8260

 

[Mitel_specialist]

Don't forget to move de i-button from the old to new system !!

 

[IrwinMFletcher]

Change the bootline to boot via ftp, point it to a load you know. When the system comes up, then you can halt it and check the drive to see what is there.

 

[stsguy]

under the other (0) instead of motfcc type in FixPartition

WORK SMART NOT HARD

 

[paterson]

FixPartition will format the hard drive! The original poster does not have a backup and was hoping to get the system running.

I have never taken a hard drive out of one system and directly into another for the purpose that you describe, so I am not aware of any pitfalls or requirements. But I do know that FixPartition will erase everything you have, which may be unavoidable at this point.

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If you did not take enough time to get it right the first time...

What makes you think that you have time to fix it?

 

[JimHilton]

Hmmm, one thing i would recommend is clone that disk. A utility called g4u or any sector by sector util should do the trick.

Then, I wondering if an in place software upgrade could get you back in action. I'm thinking very off the top of my head.

 

[StardataMitel]

Thanks for the brain storming guys,

Ended up that i had it in the wrong Hard drive bay, dumb.

Still had a few issues when it booted from the hard drive though ie, would occasionally fail booting because the DSP card would not load.

Managed to get a backup though (thank god)

Did a fresh software install, loaded backup, good as gold.

Thanks again