From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 22 22:48:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93D8106566B for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:48:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f186.google.com (mail-px0-f186.google.com [209.85.216.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45EE8FC23 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:48:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi16 with SMTP id 16so139872pxi.3 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:48:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=G5yhck/YZYF25ydyyDtz5tsh/gmyU8w9nZWtGyqW1ZI=; b=GoOCPJOTwi5C48bHeQ8Z8qmatu1hp9Qak6HNAZvgQZBCTkt44Teda6jWXjO/hr/TUc qfRSuAaIKL1Q1AoXmtNua8pELonAh5jYwLur7S+gVwFUtTs4h2ZkU0yvEGuOTk24s2qq 0MK/2HW9GotYbTRH9BkC+ZCFPBtgv/N5m1668= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=aCPhnwkmCagi8X2s501Z4LgwYR6xwsth9cMNtAgMkTg+NvwbT9oJP34JzgSnzfa7XG HaLGa/oKg0QL8ykMJuXml+WfIe0HRsVPnuS1YvRaBII1xrsMGa9VOvvsfGJJ6/TKlInv /Fwlz8SbjI3laS48bsLzvwuOUzydoyERWeNYU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.143.131.6 with SMTP id i6mr730011wfn.338.1256251681334; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:48:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:48:01 -0700 Message-ID: <539c60b90910221548l217d6590madd0ef9dc68b95f1@mail.gmail.com> From: Steve Franks To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: ad0 mountable after sysinstall, but invalid from boot mgr / mbr (7.2-R) 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: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:48:02 -0000 Just did an install on a disk. Never seen this before, but I made my own partitions instead of 'a' for automatic, and they came up as ad0s1c-g, instead of ad0s1a-e. Sysinstall (7.2 release) seemed to progress & complete just fine. When I try to boot the disk, I get "invalid partition", then "boot: 0:(ad,0)/boot/kernel/kernel", etc...I've tried every permutation I can think of on adXs1Y/boot/kernel/kernel at this prompt - it's wedged tight. So, I jump back to the liveFS disk, thinking sysinstall zorked the disk, but I can mount the disk (ad0s1d) just fine, and see the contents of /mnt/boot/kernel and see /mnt/boot/loader* (never seen a file with a * in the name, but the one on /boot has a * after loader too). Best, Steve