From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 20:31:11 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 ABC9316A4CE for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 20:31:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web50906.mail.yahoo.com (web50906.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3831243D8D for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 20:31:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from b_oshea@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 16210 invoked by uid 60001); 10 May 2005 20:31:10 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=4lgcCApdLYf+t23kAZILF0Ermf1CnTUSW/30GlZgBCHOBDoDD31GHadl+vY7ty2lTtPMe1G8A1kLTDi+W9Nqqv7Lh9klBn3F7QzcUfhW5bPmL+RK86j0QLgSdMHyndkM9o2vywl/ItPje2ucQK7/TObDLf27YjN6zkULQWJU6RA= ; Message-ID: <20050510203110.16208.qmail@web50906.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [156.153.254.41] by web50906.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 10 May 2005 13:31:10 PDT Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 13:31:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian O'Shea To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Boot loader doesn't see ATA disk after successful install 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: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:31:11 -0000 Hello all, I recently installed FreeBSD 5.4-RC4 on an i386 (I know, just before 5.4-RELEASE was posted...I should have waited!). The install was successful, however after it completed and the system rebooted, the boot loader could not find the root filesystem. This system also has a SCSI disk (disk2) which has an older release of FreeBSD installed. That is the FFS and swap partitions that you see in the lsdev output below. The IDE disk onto which I installed 5.4-RC4 is disk1 (as can be seen by the currdev setting; see below). Note that it sees the disk, but not the partitions that I created on it. OK lsdev cd devices: disk devices: disk0: BIOS drive A: disk1: BIOS drive C: disk2: BIOS drive D: disk2s1a: FFS disk2s1b: swap disk2s1d: FFS disk2s1e: FFS disk2s1f: FFS disk2s1g: FFS pxe devices: OK show currdev disk1s1a: OK ls open '/' failed: no such file dor directory OK Not OK! :-/ Any idea what I could have done wrong? When I created the slice on disk1, sysinstall warned me that the geometry was incorrect. Instead it used some other values that it considered to be more sane. I have gone through the install twice, both with the same results. The second time I looked up what the BIOS thought the geometry was, and specified that to sysinstall. In both cases I created one slice on the disk containing all available space, and created partitions for the filesystems and swap device. I also installed the boot loader in the MBR. Any advice kindly appreciated. Please let me know if there is any more information that you need about my system and I will do my best to provide it. Regards, -brian __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com