Ok, this is not a full complete hard disk recovery method. I’m simply sharing how I managed to fix my M10 hard disk.
I was upgrading JUNOS form version 8 to 9 when I got a bunch of errors and suddenly the hard disk was no longer available. Unfortunately I did not grab a log when this happened.
When I rebooted the box I was seeing this error on startup:
mfs: /dev/ad1s1b: Device not configured /dev/ad1s1f: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. /dev/ad1s1f: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Can't open /dev/ad1s1f: Device not configured
Once the box finally started up via the compact-flash I attempted to run a diagnostics but could not:
root> request chassis routing-engine diagnostics hard-disk -> Hard disk is absent from the boot list. Hard disk may have had previous errors, skipping test.
So basically it looks like JUNOS has removed the hard drive from the boot list. How can we stick it back? First you need to log in via root so you get the % prompt. Do NOT go into cli mode yet.
Type:
sysctl -w machdep.bootdevs=pcmcia-flash,compact-flash,disk,lan
This tells JUNOS to put the boot order back to the default, including the hard drive.
Not reboot the box and it should come back into the boot order. This is what I saw on my boot:
ad0: 1953MB[3970/16/63] at ata0-master PIO4 ad1: DMA limited to UDMA33 ad1: 11513MB [23392/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA33 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a if_pfe_open: listener socket opened, listening... Mounted jbase package on /dev/vn0...
So far so good. Once the box is back up go back into root mode and type:
root@% smartd -oe /dev/ad1
Hopefully your drive should be back up. If not you can run some extended smart tests on it. If you’ve lost your partitions you can repartition the disk by first going into cli mode and then:
root> request system partition hard-disk WARNING: The hard disk is about to be partitioned. The contents WARNING: of /altroot and /altconfig will be saved and restored. WARNING: All other data is at risk. This is the setup stage, the WARNING: partition happens during the next reboot. Setting up to partition the hard disk ... WARNING: A REBOOT IS REQUIRED TO PARTITION THE HARD DISK. Use the WARNING: 'request system reboot' command when you are ready to proceed WARNING: with the partitioning. To abort the partition of the hard disk WARNING: use the 'request system partition abort' command. root> request system reboot Reboot the system ? [yes,no] (no) yes
I had to repartition my disk and rebooted. All looks good:
root> show system storage Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 992M 51M 932M 5% / devfs 16K 16K 0B 100% /dev/ /dev/vn0 14M 14M 0B 100% /packages/mnt/jbase /dev/vn1 57M 57M 0B 100% /packages/mnt/jkernel-8.1-20071208.0 /dev/vn2 6.4M 6.4M 0B 100% /packages/mnt/jpfe-M10-8.1-20071208.0 /dev/vn3 2.9M 2.9M 0B 100% /packages/mnt/jdocs-8.1-20071208.0 /dev/vn4 20M 20M 0B 100% /packages/mnt/jroute-8.1-20071208.0 /dev/vn5 8.3M 8.3M 0B 100% /packages/mnt/jcrypto-8.1-20071208.0 /dev/vn6 9.6M 9.6M 0B 100% /packages/mnt/jpfe-common-8.1-20071208.0 mfs:260 1.5G 8.0K 1.4G 0% /tmp mfs:267 1.5G 248K 1.4G 0% /mfs /dev/ad0s1e 189M 5.0K 187M 0% /config procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc /dev/ad1s1f 7.7G 6.6M 7.1G 0% /var
After this I went from 8.1 to 9.3 and then to 10.4 and everything looks good :)
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