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TakeFlight
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Sun Jan 23, 2005 6:46 am Post subject:
Help! Mirror boots only from floppy |
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Trying to move a functioning SBS 2000 onto a new (larger) hard drive. No
problem, right? Just insert the new drive and build a mirror from Disk
Manager. Then power down, remove the power cable from the original drive
and power up. No boot.
If I copy the boot files onto a floppy, the drive boots fine. I've verified
that the files are indeed present on the hard drive, and the floppy's
boot.ini actually works unaltered.
What am I missing? If it boots from the floppy, boot.ini unaltered, it
should be something wrong with the MBR, no?
(unusual side note: booting from CD into the Recovery Console shows winnt as
being drive "F" instead of "C" like I would have thought. Running fixboot
and fixmbr has no effect. Booting into Windows from the floppy and looking
at Disk Mgr shows "C" and "E" like they should be, and reports no problems.)
Thanks for any insight...this problem is getting old fast. |
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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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Sun Jan 23, 2005 6:46 am Post subject:
Re: Help! Mirror boots only from floppy |
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MBR not written to shadow disk unless you first create a small partition on
it, format it NTFS and then delete it.
Why can't I use the other disk of the mirror set to boot Windows NT
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/14673/14673.html
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Merv Porter [SBS MVP] |
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TakeFlight
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Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:46 am Post subject:
Re: Help! Mirror boots only from floppy |
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| Did that. Still no dice. |
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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:46 am Post subject:
Re: Help! Mirror boots only from floppy |
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SCSI or IDE? If SCSI, did you reset the jumper on the new drive to SCSI 0?
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Merv Porter [SBS MVP] |
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TakeFlight
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Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:50 pm Post subject:
Re: Help! Mirror boots only from floppy |
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SCSI drive. Unplugged the power to the original drive, so this one's the
only one active. Tried fiddling with the jumper but it doesn't seem to
matter. |
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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:31 am Post subject:
Re: Help! Mirror boots only from floppy |
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IIRC, I had a Dell PE 2300 a while back that wouldn't boot to shadow drive
unless I removed original Drive 0 and put the shadow drive in its place. I
think it had something to do with the SCSI backplane in the server.
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Merv Porter [SBS MVP] |
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TakeFlight
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Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:36 am Post subject:
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Not sure I tried this, but it is a Dell PE 1300. Will try that. I've never
had a problem booting from a shadow before, but this is my first attempt at
both a SBS and SCSI system.
Thanks, Merv! |
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