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Offline WilseTopic starter

Pegasos won't boot
« on: March 23, 2005, 07:33:02 PM »
I also posted this a Morphzone but I'm guessing I'll get as much response here.

After my 'audio partition invalidated' problem, which some of you may have read about, I now have another problem.

My Peg won't boot.

I put the drive back into the peg, on the IDE channel nearest the front of the machine, at the end of the cable.
On switching on, the MOS (1.4) logo comes up, then all I get is a black screen.
If I boot from the MOS1.3 CD, it boots but no HD is shown.

Any ideas?

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Offline Karlos

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Re: Pegasos won't boot
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2005, 07:36:55 PM »
If all else fails, can you reformat it and reinstall the OS?

From what I gather (and I could well be wrong), SFS is a mixed bag. When it's good it's great (that is to say it's very reliable and resiliant to errors). When it eventually does get an error it's quite difficult to fix.
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Re: Pegasos won't boot
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2005, 07:47:39 PM »
unfortunately yes, Karlos.

I can repair PFS3 partition and FFS as well but, SFS . . . lack of repairing tools . . even if i must admit, that SFS has never fault here (touching wood)

Bye

PS- ohh i remember now that last year, i have restored "something" thanks to SFSSalv.



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Offline WilseTopic starter

Re: Pegasos won't boot
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2005, 09:54:09 PM »
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If all else fails, can you reformat it and reinstall the OS?


Well, I can't get the drive to show up on the Peg at all so I can't install anything on it.

It now shows up on my A1 but I don't think I could install MOS1.4 from there - then again, maybe it's just a case of copying the files over from the CD?

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Re: Pegasos won't boot
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2005, 10:55:21 PM »
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It now shows up on my A1 but I don't think I could install MOS1.4 from there - then again, maybe it's just a case of copying the files over from the CD?

IIRC copying files from CD to HD is enough... but cant be sure.

However it looks like it is hardware problem. Serial debug could tell what goes wrong but have you tried morphos ml? Ralph & co rarely hang on forums... but it looks like fatal hw fault :-/
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Re: Pegasos won't boot
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2005, 11:02:19 PM »
@Robert/Wlise

Can you see the device or partitions from the open firmware?

I forget the command now but you can ls the device and it should show the paritions and their respective FileSystems. If it's supported filesystem you can even list the contents of it.

ls /pci/ide/device@,: maybe ?

0,0:0 for the first parition on primary ide channel, master drive afair

ls /pci/ide/device@0,0 should list the partitions

Entirely possible the MBR (Boot Sector) or RDB has become corrupted I guess, however, given that you get the MOS logo....safe to assume it finds the first FFS partition and the boot.img .. so I doubt it's an MBR problem.
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Re: Pegasos won't boot
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2005, 11:08:44 PM »
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Offline WilseTopic starter

Re: Pegasos won't boot
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2005, 11:20:19 PM »
@JKD:

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Can you see the device or partitions from the open firmware?


I can see them all via scsi config.

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Entirely possible the MBR (Boot Sector) or RDB has become corrupted I guess, however, given that you get the MOS logo....safe to assume it finds the first FFS partition and the boot.img .. so I doubt it's an MBR problem.


Have to confess, I'm pretty clueless in this department.
(As if that wasn't obvious. :-D)
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Re: Pegasos won't boot
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2005, 11:32:05 PM »
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I can see them all via scsi config.


Ah, then you are good to go! I think you are getting the right advice on MZ anyway. So I'll discontinue here.

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Offline WilseTopic starter

Re: Pegasos won't boot
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2005, 11:40:03 PM »
@JKD:

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I think you are getting the right advice on MZ anyway. So I'll discontinue here.


Noted, thanks. :pint:
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Offline WilseTopic starter

Re: Pegasos won't boot
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2005, 02:07:24 PM »
I'm absolutely delighted to report that my Pagasos, as of about a
minute ago, is now back to normal!

Posting this via Voyager. :pint:
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Re: Pegasos won't boot
« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2005, 04:37:27 PM »
Ah I love to read threads with happy endings  :-)

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Re: Pegasos won't boot
« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2005, 04:59:43 PM »
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It now shows up on my A1 but I don't think I could install MOS1.4 from there - then again, maybe it's just a case of copying the files over from the CD?

Cant you instead remove the partitions using the amigaone, and then try to recreate it/them on the pegasos? Or atleast format them...
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Offline WilseTopic starter

Re: Pegasos won't boot
« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2005, 06:06:11 PM »
@Tomas:

I've fixed it already but that's pretty much how I did it.
There were just some additional niggles that took a while longer to iron out.
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