On 2012-02-15 22:10, Martin Husemann wrote:
Ok, so the hard disk is not broken - I found another and get the same symptoms. Also, after netbooting the machine I can fsck and access the hard disk just fine. I just can't boot from it :-( It does an endless stream of: 83 BOOT SYS -DKA0 83 BOOT SYS -DKA0 83 BOOT SYS -DKA0 83 BOOT SYS and all 8 leds below the front panel are flashing simultaneously (all on -- all off -- all on -- ... with ca. 1 Hz). Any ideas?
Broken/bad boot block? Or no secondary boot (/boot) on the disk? I would definitely start by trying to rewrite the boot block (see installboot and disklabel), and check that I have a correct boot image in the root.
Johnny
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