Hello folks iwas hoping someone may be able to help with a prob i had with SME server 5.1.2.
Wanting to evaluate this product I installed 2 days ago for the first time on a 2 disk system with software mirroring and everything was great up until last night.......
I logged into the admin interface and did a internet connectivity test and it spat back a heap of error messages.So i switched to a shell and tried to ping an internet address and it core dumped,tried any command and it core dumped....ok i thought, it had thrown a fit and ill reboot.
Well that was the last time that machine was running as it absolutely will not boot up.It jus says 'non system disk error' etc etc.
So,i boot off a floppy and go into the install routine to see if i can rescue the data i stored in an 'ibay' by choosing upgrade.The install process identifies the hda disk as having a corrupt partition and trys to reformat,however it crashes when it tries to do that.
I had installed the latest update blade if that has any signifigance....
I mean id really like to manually choose where certain partitions go but im yet to see this option. (i apologize if there IS that option and ive missed it!)
Anyway i was wondering if it has to do with the software mirroring option i chose?
If its mirrored onto the second disk is it possible to reformat disk 1(hda) and somehow copy the old data over?
Cheers
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