From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 15 04:29:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB9716A4D0 for ; Sun, 15 May 2005 04:29:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC2E43DB3 for ; Sun, 15 May 2005 04:29:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2235172DD4; Sat, 14 May 2005 21:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F9E172DCB; Sat, 14 May 2005 21:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 21:29:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: rduffner In-Reply-To: <20050514201952.31416.qmail@blade1-3.iptech.localdomain> Message-ID: <20050514212943.L49081@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <4283862D.1060401@ip-tech.ch> <20050513152513.Y30976@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20050514201952.31416.qmail@blade1-3.iptech.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem booting 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 04:29:55 -0000 On Sat, 14 May 2005, rduffner wrote: > Doug White writes: > > > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I installed FreeBSD5.4 on a server with a 3ware 7006-2 controller and > >> two 120GB disks as RAID1 > >> I cannot boot this install. (I get some kind of panic or endless loop, > >> but the display is re-painted so fast I cannot read it). > >> What I *can* do is insert my SuSE9.2-pro cd1, boot from that and at the > >> grub-menu say "boot from harddisk". > >> That boots FreeBSD. > >> > >> On advice from IRC, I tried: > >> # boot0cfg -B twed0 > >> > >> -which leads to this output > >> > >> boot0cfg: write_mbr: /dev/twed0: No such file or directory > > > > This is a erroneous message. The actual problem is: > > > > 484 boot0cfg NAMI "/dev/twed0" > > 484 boot0cfg RET open -1 errno 1 Operation not permitted > > > > This is a known problem with certain MBR layouts. To work around this > > problem, set: > > > > sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 > > > > then try your boot0cfg. There's a protection mechanism that sometimes gets > > confused by certain partition table layouts. Flag 16 disables that > > protection. I don't recommend running this unless you are explicitly > > trying to updating something in a partition table-like area; its very easy > > to destroy your system with the flag set! > > > I booted from CD and ran the boot0cfg "offline" - however, this worked only > on one server. I have two more identical servers that now just beep > endlessly at the F1-prompt. > I was told it is a geometry problem, but what else can I do? boot0cfg -o packet adX -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org