Re: [j-nsp] Manually installing JunOS on crashed HD (no CF available)

2010-07-08 Thread Felipe Zanchet Grazziotin
Hi, just to keep this information archived to others, even it sounds obvious: don't try to boot FreeBSD directly at Juniper. :) What I did to have it working? Got HD back to PC, pkg_add on jinstall package, once it asked me to reboot, turn off PC ('halt' does it fine). Put HD on RE, have it boo

Re: [j-nsp] Manually installing JunOS on crashed HD (no CF available)

2010-07-08 Thread Jonas Frey
I guess you dont get any more console output since after that last line the system will send all output to VGA only. Before the output was handled by the bios and redirected to the com port. So (i guess) you have to make the freebsd installation to send all console output to the correct com-port...

Re: [j-nsp] Manually installing JunOS on crashed HD (no CF available)

2010-07-08 Thread Felipe Zanchet Grazziotin
Jonas, On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Jonas Frey wrote: > I guess you dont get any more console output since after that last line > the system will send all output to VGA only. Before the output was > handled by the bios and redirected to the com port. > So (i guess) you have to make the freebs

Re: [j-nsp] Manually installing JunOS on crashed HD (no CF available)

2010-07-08 Thread Phill Jolliffe
Maybe cheat? Put the old HDD in a working RE, (good CF), do an install-media and from extern flash. The boot, do a "request system snapshot" Then put the HDD back in foobar'd RE and boot. On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Felipe Zanchet Grazziotin wrote: > Gentlemen, > > thank you for all those

[j-nsp] Manually installing JunOS on crashed HD (no CF available)

2010-07-08 Thread Felipe Zanchet Grazziotin
Gentlemen, thank you for all those answers on my previous question, about replacing M7i HD. Just replaced that crashed HD with an IDE one, notebook sized. Haven't found a SSD at good prices, still searching for one. In this new HD I've installed FreeBSD 4.4-mini (minimum install, just default op