From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 18:46:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E3D1065670 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:46:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from arcturus.maxiscale.com (arcturus.maxiscale.com [76.231.178.136]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7D38FC1C for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:46:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1227725191-21af00010000-P5m3U7 X-Barracuda-URL: http://10.100.1.25:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from polaris.maxiscale.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arcturus.maxiscale.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 8A3C031192 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:46:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from polaris.maxiscale.com (polaris.maxiscale.com [10.100.1.24]) by arcturus.maxiscale.com with ESMTP id SQjva17KLcq14Dxv for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:46:31 -0800 (PST) X-ASG-Whitelist: Client X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: FreeBSD boot menu is missing Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:46:29 -0800 Message-ID: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F240CE6B@polaris.maxiscale.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: FreeBSD boot menu is missing Thread-Index: AclP90uHGhs0h9IHRGSDagfesWbtyA== From: "Peter Steele" To: X-Barracuda-Connect: polaris.maxiscale.com[10.100.1.24] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1227725191 X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at maxiscale.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD boot menu is missing X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:46:33 -0000 I have a procedure for converting a FreeBSD box to use a mirrored slice for the OS. Everything working fine except that after I've made the conversion I am no longer getting the normal boot menu, the one that counts down 10 seconds waiting for the user to pick on option.=20 =20 I see a single line showing that the BTX 1.01 loader has been launched, but from there the system simply boots directly with no menu being displayed. I'm obviously missing a step when using gmirror to convert a system over to use mirroring but I'm not sure what. My basic approach is to install the OS onto the first drive, setting it to use the standard boot manager, and then setup the second drive using gmirror and copy the file systems over to the mirror. I then set boot.config to boot off this drive and it comes up fine, there just isn't any boot menu.=20 =20 Any advice on how to solve this would be appreciated. Thanks. =20 =20