From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 23 07:01:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 573A116A4E1 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:01:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCFBD43D46 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:01:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id k7N71rsZ041205 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:01:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id k7N71rkJ041204; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:01:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA14609; Tue, 22 Aug 06 23:48:26 PDT Date: Tue, 22 Aug 06 23:48:26 PDT From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Message-Id: <10608230648.AA14609@pluto.rain.com> To: gregb@scls.lib.wi.us Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new 6.1 install will not boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:01:56 -0000 > Recommend you get a [bigger|second] disk if you can though, > or housecleaning will be a constant chore. I got it more or less working, although not completely set up, and then that 10GB disk died: click -- kerthunk -- click -- kerthunk continuously, even after cycling power, even with only the power connected :( After replacing it with a 160GB Hitachi, and reinstalling Windoze, Linux, and FreeBSD (in that order, as before), I seem to be back at square one -- FreeBSD won't boot -- but the details are different. Partition Commander now has: Ptn size ----- type ----- 1st sector # of sectors P0 250M FAT32 0x0B 63 514017 P1 7M Linux ext2 0x83 514080 16065 P2 41.99G Unix 0xA5 530145 88068330 P3 85.75G Extended 0x0F 88598475 179831610 L0 43.75G FAT32 0x0B 88598538 91763217 L1 400M Linux swap 0x82 180361818 819252 L2 41.60G Linux ext2 0x83 181181133 87248952 Sysinstall had not commented about the geometry with the 10GB disk, but it did this time; and as suggested I let it do what it wanted. The Dell BIOS will not tell me what it thinks the geometry is -- it just says the drive is EIDE -- so I have no direct way of verifying sysinstall's geometry; however the first BIOS partition is a working FAT32 and per the instructions that "should" be enough for sysinstall to have gotten it right. (The second BIOS partition is a Linux /boot, which also works.) The install appeared to succeed, and the FreeBSD boot manager does successfully boot Windoze and Linux, but all attempts to boot FreeBSD from the hard disk fail. The following was transcribed by hand, so there might be some typos; and I've added some notes to the right of the lsdev output. I've also confirmed, using the loader's "ls", that there is no visible file named 'kernel' in the root directory, nor anywhere under /boot, /rescue, or /sbin. Where is it supposed to come from, and how do I get it where it needs to be without reinstalling the whole thing *yet again*? ==================================================================== F1 DOS F2 Linux F3 FreeBSD Default: F3 BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Consoles: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 640kB/195584kB available memory acpi: bad RSDP checksum (210) FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 7 03:20:03 UTC 2006) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf Unable to load a kernel! / can't load 'kernel' Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. OK lsdev cd devices: disk devices: disk0: BIOS drive A: disk1: BIOS drive C: disk1s1: FAT32 # C: disk1s2: ext2fs # Linux /boot disk1s3a: FFS # FreeBSD / disk1s3b: swap disk1s3d: FFS # FreeBSD /var disk1s3e: FFS # FreeBSD /tmp disk1s3f: FFS # FreeBSD /usr disk1s4: Unknown fs: 0xf # contains FAT32 D:, Linux swap and / pxe devicde: OK