Re: can't boot from mirrored boot drive

The Recovery Console's bootcfg or map commands or using Sysinternal's WinObj tool in the up and running installation may shed some light on the situation.

John

billd wrote:
Yes, I am... The first disk boots ok. There is an EISA partition that is the first partition on the first rdisk(0). So I boot from the second. On the second harddisk rdisk(1) there are only two partitions, the first is the boot, but it will not boot.

Thanks for your response..

Bill

"John John" wrote:


You are trying to boot on the second partition on the first hard disk, is that where the installation resides?

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)
^^^^^^^^

John

billd wrote:


Hi,

Recently, my mirrored drive in my 2K3 server died. I took the drive out, removed the mirror, but new drive in, replaced the mirror. It says it is healthing and the mirror is fine. However, if I try to boot from the mirrored drive, it fails with the error:

windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<windows root>\system32ntoskrnl.exe

please reinstall a copy of the above file.

Now that would normally say to me that the boot.ini is incorrect, but it looks right to me:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003 for Small Business Server" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Boot Mirror C: - secondary plex" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect

the disks are mirrored, so the path to windows should be correct yes? They are sata drives, drive 0 and drive 1 on the main system board's controller. I was able to format the drive correctly etc before I made the mirror> I can look at properties of the disk in disk manager - everything seems sweet until I try and boot the secondary. There are three partitions on rdisk(0) 102MB EISA Configuration) C: 12GB NTFS (Healthy System) and Logs (G:) 62.40 GB NTFS Healthy

rdisk(1) only has 2 partitions, the C: and G: which are mirrored and healthy. When I set up the mirror, it did not give me the opportunity to mirror the EISA Configuration.

Anyway, it would appear that I am running on empty to coin a phrase because if my first drive fails, it looks as though I would not be able to boot the mirror drive. How can I see what the state of that drive is? Do I need to break the mirror and unplug the rdsk(0) and see if it will boot? What is the best procedure for this.

Thanks





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