From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 17 14:49:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE2237B640 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:49:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA68848 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:49:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:49:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt052n3e.san.rr.com To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: No /boot/loader Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No response to this on -stable. The actual error message is: Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x7004c) No /boot/loader Also, on a whim I decided to try running /boot/loader. I got a message saying that there was a syntax error on line 4, that it was missing either a close paren or a close curly brace. It went by fast, and I couldn't reproduce it. A quick examination of the sources by my boot code inexpert eyes didn't reveal anything that looked relevant on any line 4's. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 20:30:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton Subject: Re: CFT: boot patch for 4.x I'm having a problem that isn't related to your patch, but that I'm hoping you or someone can shed some light on. I installed 4-Stable from the 7/6 snapshot onto some shiny new machines, and when I reboot them I get an error: See above. then the boot: prompt comes up a couple of times, it finds the kerrnel and boots anyway. I found this odd because there clearly IS a /boot/loader, and I haven't changed anything in /boot at all. I did a make world today and installed a custom kernel, no joy. I'm also getting the dreaded top: nlist failed error. I have the following for adapters: ahc0: port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xf4100000-0xf4100fff irq 19 at d evice 12.0 on pci0 ahc0: aic7896/97 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs ahc1: port 0x2400-0x24ff mem 0xf4101000-0xf4101fff irq 19 at d evice 12.1 on pci0 ahc1: aic7896/97 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs and this for disks: da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 8755MB (17930694 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1116C) da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 8755MB (17930694 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1116C) I did the install with dangerously dedicated disks, which I know John is not a big fan of, but on the IBM SCSI drives I have in the other machines I have no problems of this sort whatsoever. I suppose I could try the install again with a real partition table, I just hate to waste all that config time. :-/ Any help appreciated. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message