I have normal standard pc running XENIX I boot from zip drive which has Ghost on and make image to zipd drive from my hard drive with XENIX on. I tried test restore with Ghosting to a new hard drive but when it boot get error.
Not a directory Boot not found Stage 1 boot failure: error loading hd(40)/boot
First off, which version of Ghost are you using? If it's not a fairly recent vintage it probably doesn't support any of the *nix file systems.
I'm assuming you're working from Windows. First get a version of some kind of imaging software (looks like Ghost is up to ver. 14 -- I much prefer Acronis, but to each their own...) and give it another go. You should be able to score a trial version of either. (Acronis definitely: http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/download/ATICW/
The only way I've ever made this work with ghost is to do a disk to disk copy. The disks also had the same parameters, in fact they were Identical.
I've never tried with g4u and Xenix. g4u does a bit by bit copy which will most likely give you the same trouble if the replacement disk has a different geometry. All ghost did was a bit by bit since it has no idea what Xenix is either. If you could find the exact same disk model then the ghost would most likely work.
Does your new disk come up to a "boot:" prompt when you try loading from it? If not then you are missing the "boot loader" program. If your old disk is still bootable you will need to boot from the old hard disk then create boot/root recovery floppies using the "mkdev fd" command. Once these are created then you can boot from those with the new hard disk in the system. Once booted then you can srite a boot loader to the hard disk using the following: /bin/dd if=/etc/hdboot0 of=/dev/hd0a /bin/dd if=/etc/hdboot1 of=/dev/hd0a bs=1k seek=1 haltsys
If the boot: prompt comes up but still will not boot it could be the boot file is just missing from your new disk. To recvoer /boot, boot from the floppy set created above and do the following: /etc/mount /dev/hd0root /mnt
- Issue the following commands: /bin/cp /boot /mnt/boot /etc/umount /dev/hd0root /etc/haltsys
If you are getting a "Stage1 boot failure not a directory" type message then this would be unrecoverable in almost all cases and the drive will need to be re-installed from recovery media (created above) or from release media.
As a side note: many of the free ghosting products do not play well with the unix operating systems out there (especially the older unices)
Hey cant believe it some can help me i'm on holiday right know but back on Wednesday will try It says Not a directory Boot not found Stage 1 boot failure: error loading hd(40)/boot
But can type anything so boot loader is missing.
Do you maybe know where I can download boot? Cheers Thanks for know will come back to you
