From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 13:45:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C78BF16A407 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:45:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz) Received: from service2.sh.cvut.cz (service2.sh.cvut.cz [147.32.127.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5600A13C459 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:45:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by service2.sh.cvut.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E86137AEB; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:27:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from service2.sh.cvut.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (service2.sh.cvut.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03801-03; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:27:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from logout.sh.cvut.cz (logout.sh.cvut.cz [147.32.127.203]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by service2.sh.cvut.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C23137ADB; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:27:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.111.22] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by logout.sh.cvut.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE08661C21; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:27:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45A78CA4.30903@sh.cvut.cz> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:27:00 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E1clav_Haisman?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jo Rhett References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig84EA34D1BD270AE8EB7CAF53" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at service2.sh.cvut.cz X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 tagged_above=-255.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL, CRM114_HAM_10 X-Spam-Level: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:45:22 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig84EA34D1BD270AE8EB7CAF53 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jo Rhett wrote: > So I've been searching for hours now, and it appears that short of > reading the C code, there's no documentation of the boot2 menu prompt. >=20 > Sure, it says drive:driver(unit,slice,part) >=20 > But no combination of those three that I can find actually works. >=20 > There's two LUNs: > drive 0: single 2TB slice > drive 1: 264GB, with root, swap, etc >=20 > How do I tell boot2 to find the loader on disk1? >=20 > 1:da(1,a) > 1:da(1,1,a) > 1:da(0,1,a) > 1:da(0,a) > 0:da(1,a) > 0:da(0,a) > ...etc none of them work. >=20 > --Jo Rhett > senior geek > Silicon Valley Colocation >=20 What does lsdev or whatever it was say? Does it show any devices besides the raw disks? I had similar problem with ASUS Vintage-PE1 hardware. It never showed any devices to boot except two raw disks (I had GEOM Mirror setup). And I never found a way to work around this. -- VH --------------enig84EA34D1BD270AE8EB7CAF53 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBRaeMpENOZDESBK8FAQLjIQf/fpIq2ZwpHgIXvJchCxBZPizmwLYdNI0M yvgOBlZsYYiMwcmo1eaNh8wSWu7BovRfEDPHIn9203r3m1teRH+GlREI0CoW6k86 zcqCZYqKDEaNBZCjyCuaST8QeZLhe9+gWSwNuJ9HEE8trzaqkchArSGx8HXSdNml HVdWNrBG0BKi5+qmUhf+2iXOsmWszDRkO+rtYarCvITSINe5k/FwJAze/x3/dIMp MlDEdHDdIlw/HSFsrKkZviffQGcACfCJBcDmMyXvdA8tysenGYURVYBzfcId8Fyg JvyxdlvqKiu0TED52yaITO1n4D+sAAo+ntp39vADS4z2BX49CZqiaw== =xVc1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig84EA34D1BD270AE8EB7CAF53--