From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 22 12:01:21 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 0EF4A16A4D7 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:01:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC0943D2D for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:01:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.37.55] ([82.41.37.55]) by smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:01:56 +0100 Message-ID: <4268E78D.6030009@dial.pipex.com> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:01:17 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040627 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Zumbrunn References: <5af4153cc97abfa75d403f30eb8e9963@czv.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Apr 2005 12:01:56.0718 (UTC) FILETIME=[14C360E0:01C54733] cc: questions@freebsd.org 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, 22 Apr 2005 12:01:21 -0000 Chris Zumbrunn wrote: >> The server is in a datacenter and I can only access it via ssh and >> boot either from the local disks or via network (freebsd or linux) - >> no serial console, so I can't see where it gets stuck during the >> bootstrap. >> Do you mean that you can boot the machine from an OS it picks up from the network? I.e. you can boot some OS which is not the one of the local disk? If so, then boot the network FreeBSD, mount your local disks and look at /var/log/messages. If the machine was at least booting FreeBSD when it died then you should see something. > Otherwise I'll get someone to sit in front of the machine and look at > the screen during a boot attempt Well, that would be easiest, if you can do it. How many airmiles do you have :-) --Alex