From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 29 07:08:15 2005 Return-Path: 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 BCAE316A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:08:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from engine140.deployzone.net (engine140.deployzone.net [193.17.85.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D074A43D46 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:08:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@czv.com) Received: from adsl-212-90-218-5.cybernet.ch [212.90.218.5] by engine140.deployzone.net; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:03:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <426A2E85.3060100@dial.pipex.com> <50062e36909107a9e85cef445bb2f153@czv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <9ff3d56b79a4cf7f9368a12a6be872b3@czv.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chris Zumbrunn Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:08:09 +0200 To: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) cc: bob@a1poweruser.com cc: Alex Zbyslaw Subject: Re: Stuck in bootstrapping hell - how do I troubleshoot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:08:15 -0000 On Apr 24, 2005, at 9:24 AM, Chris Zumbrunn wrote: > On Apr 23, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Chris Zumbrunn wrote: > >> On Apr 23, 2005, at 1:27 PM, wrote: >> >>> Turn off power management in PC bios and try again. >> >> Thanks, I'll try that. > > [...] > As soon as someone goes to the datacenter, we'll see what the console > is saying and we'll try disabling the power management in the bios > (can't do that remotely either). > Someone went by the datacenter and checked this out. When attempting to boot, the machine seemed to hang at the time when it should find/look for an MBR - it didn't report anything. The only power management setting we could find in the bios that seemed related, was an ACPI related enable/disable flag. After disabling that we still experienced the same hang. We also tried to boot just from one disk (ad0) after disabling the RAID1 (ar0). And we reinstalled the MBR/bootstrap code on the ad0 and ad2 disks but still couldn't get them to boot. Then we switched the disks with those from another (identical) machine and repeated the setup. This time it worked fine and FreeBSD is booting now. The other disks now work fine as well, but are running debian in the other machine. Unfortunately, I again don't know what I did differently (nothing, I believe). Maybe I'll figure it out the next time it happens. Any ideas what it could have been or what else I should have checked? /czv