Boot Partition Lost in SCSI Drive

[adnan]

Dear all,

could anyone help me out for the following problem:

I have PII 450MHz Intel Based Machine with SCO OpenServer (UNIX) ver 5.d having
Ingres ver 6.4

Now the problem arises in the SCSI hard drive. And its boot partition has been
corrupted. The SCSI utility didn't find any Hard Drive too.

Error Message appears:
"Press F1 key to search the boot partition or F2 for BIOS Setup."


Task
====
Anyone guide me recover the boot partition in the SCSI drive C.
Secondly and more importantly , the way i recover the boot partition
without disturbing the old installation of database (ingres). or atleast
recover all the data in the database for later use.

thanks

[Bill Marcum]

On 1 Sep 2004 03:33:24 -0700, adnan
<adnan_abbasi@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> could anyone help me out for the following problem:
>
> I have PII 450MHz Intel Based Machine with SCO OpenServer (UNIXW) ver

5.d having

> Ingres ver 6.4
>
> Now the problem arises in the SCSI hard drive. And its boot partWition

has been

> corrupted. The SCSI utility didn't find any Hard Drive too.
>

If it doesn't find the hard drive, you've got a hardware problem.
Standard advice would be to get a new drive and restore from backup.
(does anybody actually do backups?)

--
If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests? (Think about it)

[Scott McMillan]

On 1 Sep 2004 03:33:24 -0700, [email]adnan_abbasi@hotmail.com[/email] (adnan) wrote:

[Follow-up set to comp.unix.sco.misc]

>Dear all,
>
>could anyone help me out for the following problem:
>
>I have PII 450MHz Intel Based Machine with SCO OpenServer (UNIX) ver 5.d having
>Ingres ver 6.4
>
>Now the problem arises in the SCSI hard drive. And its boot partition has been
>corrupted. The SCSI utility didn't find any Hard Drive too.

If the SCSI controller can't see the drive, then your drive is
probably dead. Time to replace it and restore from backups.

>
>Error Message appears:
>"Press F1 key to search the boot partition or F2 for BIOS Setup."
>
>
>Task
>====
>Anyone guide me recover the boot partition in the SCSI drive C.
>Secondly and more importantly , the way i recover the boot partition
>without disturbing the old installation of database (ingres). or atleast
>recover all the data in the database for later use.
>
>thanks

Scott McMillan

[adnan]

Scott McMillan <smcmillan@twmi.rr.com> wrote in message news:<aoccj0hf4eouisngrnll278vgsaqdihbne@4ax.com>. ..

> On 1 Sep 2004 03:33:24 -0700, [email]adnan_abbasi@hotmail.com[/email] (adnan) wrote:
>
> [Follow-up set to comp.unix.sco.misc]
>

> >Dear all,
> >
> >could anyone help me out for the following problem:
> >
> >I have PII 450MHz Intel Based Machine with SCO OpenServer (UNIX) ver 5.d having
> >Ingres ver 6.4
> >
> >Now the problem arises in the SCSI hard drive. And its boot partition has been
> >corrupted. The SCSI utility didn't find any Hard Drive too.

>
> If the SCSI controller can't see the drive, then your drive is
> probably dead. Time to replace it and restore from backups.
>

> >
> >Error Message appears:
> >"Press F1 key to search the boot partition or F2 for BIOS Setup."
> >
> >
> >Task
> >====
> >Anyone guide me recover the boot partition in the SCSI drive C.
> >Secondly and more importantly , the way i recover the boot partition
> >without disturbing the old installation of database (ingres). or atleast
> >recover all the data in the database for later use.
> >
> >thanks

>
>
> Scott McMillan

Thanks, but luckily, the SCSI controller find it at iD 0 with a DRIVE C.
but didn't find boot partition on it. So what would be the procedure to
restore (recover) the boot partition only leave all the prior installations
as it is.

thanks
Adnan Abbasi

[Dave Hinz]

On 2 Sep 2004 22:40:37 -0700, adnan <adnan_abbasi@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks, but luckily, the SCSI controller find it at iD 0 with a DRIVE C.
> but didn't find boot partition on it. So what would be the procedure to
> restore (recover) the boot partition only leave all the prior installations
> as it is.

Mount that disk on another system that can see it, get your data, and
re-install onto a new non-suspect disk drive. Transfer your data back.
It's the safest way.

Dave Hinz

[Bill Vermillion]

In article <754bbed4.0409022140.d313d00@posting.google.com> ,
adnan <adnan_abbasi@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Scott McMillan <smcmillan@twmi.rr.com> wrote in message news:<aoccj0hf4eouisngrnll278vgsaqdihbne@4ax.com>. ..

>> On 1 Sep 2004 03:33:24 -0700, [email]adnan_abbasi@hotmail.com[/email] (adnan) wrote:
>>
>> [Follow-up set to comp.unix.sco.misc]
>>

>> >Dear all,
>> >
>> >could anyone help me out for the following problem:
>> >
>> >I have PII 450MHz Intel Based Machine with SCO OpenServer (UNIX) ver 5.d having
>> >Ingres ver 6.4
>> >
>> >Now the problem arises in the SCSI hard drive. And its boot partition has been
>> >corrupted. The SCSI utility didn't find any Hard Drive too.

>>
>> If the SCSI controller can't see the drive, then your drive is
>> probably dead. Time to replace it and restore from backups.
>>

>> >
>> >Error Message appears:
>> >"Press F1 key to search the boot partition or F2 for BIOS Setup."
>> >
>> >
>> >Task
>> >====
>> >Anyone guide me recover the boot partition in the SCSI drive C.
>> >Secondly and more importantly , the way i recover the boot partition
>> >without disturbing the old installation of database (ingres). or atleast
>> >recover all the data in the database for later use.
>> >
>> >thanks

>>
>>
>> Scott McMillan

>

>Thanks, but luckily, the SCSI controller find it at iD 0 with a
>DRIVE C. but didn't find boot partition on it. So what would be
>the procedure to restore (recover) the boot partition only leave
>all the prior installations as it is.

Could it be as something as simple as the partition not being
active?



--
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

[Abid Khan]

[email]adnan_abbasi@hotmail.com[/email] (adnan) wrote in message news:<754bbed4.0409022140.d313d00@posting.google.c om>...

> Scott McMillan <smcmillan@twmi.rr.com> wrote in message news:<aoccj0hf4eouisngrnll278vgsaqdihbne@4ax.com>. ..

> > On 1 Sep 2004 03:33:24 -0700, [email]adnan_abbasi@hotmail.com[/email] (adnan) wrote:
> >
> > [Follow-up set to comp.unix.sco.misc]
> >

> > >Dear all,
> > >
> > >could anyone help me out for the following problem:
> > >
> > >I have PII 450MHz Intel Based Machine with SCO OpenServer (UNIX) ver 5.d having
> > >Ingres ver 6.4
> > >
> > >Now the problem arises in the SCSI hard drive. And its boot partition has been
> > >corrupted. The SCSI utility didn't find any Hard Drive too.

> >
> > If the SCSI controller can't see the drive, then your drive is
> > probably dead. Time to replace it and restore from backups.
> >

> > >
> > >Error Message appears:
> > >"Press F1 key to search the boot partition or F2 for BIOS Setup."
> > >
> > >
> > >Task
> > >====
> > >Anyone guide me recover the boot partition in the SCSI drive C.
> > >Secondly and more importantly , the way i recover the boot partition
> > >without disturbing the old installation of database (ingres). or atleast
> > >recover all the data in the database for later use.
> > >
> > >thanks

> >
> >
> > Scott McMillan

>
>
> Thanks, but luckily, the SCSI controller find it at iD 0 with a DRIVE C.
> but didn't find boot partition on it. So what would be the procedure to
> restore (recover) the boot partition only leave all the prior installations
> as it is.
>
> thanks
> Adnan Abbasi

Try to mount this drive onto a working SCO drive and restore, I would
not trust this drive anymore, I would rather start on the new drive
after a successful restore.

Abid