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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:21:42 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Red Neck <kcender07@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Loader broken in Head?
Message-ID:  <200710311321.42463.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <862892.31020.qm@web27810.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
References:  <862892.31020.qm@web27810.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

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On Wednesday 31 October 2007 12:10:24 pm Red Neck wrote:
> cd devices:
> disk devices:
>     disk0:    BIOS drive C:
>         disk0s1a: FFS
>         disk0s1b: swap
>         disk0s1d: FFS
>         disk0s1e: FFS
>         disk0s1f:  FFS
>     disk1:    BIOS drive D:
>         disk1s1: Unknown fs: 0x7
>         disk1s2: FAT-32
>     disk2:    BIOS drive E:
>         disk2s1: Unknown fs: 0xee
> pxe devices:
> 
> Where disk1s1 is an NTFS filesystem and disk2s1 is the Mac GPT, don't touch, 
partition.

Ok, so disk2 has a GPT.  Can you capture the output to show exactly where it 
is spinning?  Also, can you get the output from 'gpt show ad3' (or whatever 
drive disk2 is)?

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> Cc: Red Neck <kcender07@yahoo.co.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 October, 2007 1:57:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Loader broken in Head?
> 
> On Friday 26 October 2007 08:03:21 pm Red Neck wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Within the last day (26/10/07) I've built and installed the sources
>  from CVS
> > Head only to find the stage 3 boot loader, /boot/loader, not working.
>   I'm
> > using a Mac Pro with 3 internal hard drives.  On one hard disk I have
> > FreeBSD amd64 installed, occupying the entire disk (MBR).  Using the
>  sources
> > from Head, loader just freezes after displaying its initial messages
>  with a
> > constantly spinning cursor.  To access the system I have to revert to
>  using
> > an older loader such as 6.2 release's.  I have attached my make and
>  kernel
> > config.
> 
> What does 'lsdev' from the old loader output on the box?
> 
> -- 
> John Baldwin
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John Baldwin



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