Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:07:43 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350 Message-ID: <ej9jm0$v7b$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <ej2l2d$h42$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <ej2l2d$h42$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras wrote: > - The showstopper: Sysinstall completes (though slowly), but on reboot > the loader doesn't go further than the "F1 prompt" :( This is very > curious, since when booting from install CD the loader shows it > recognizes the CD drive and drives A: and C:, so BIOS seems to be ok. If > I understand the loader correctly, after the "F1 prompt" phase, the > loader should transfer control to the boot block of the first slice? There's something unusual going on and I don't know what else to try. Finally, after fiddling with various options, I've sort-of got it to work by creating two slices (s1, s2), setting root partition on s1a and the rest (/usr, /var, etc.) on s2. Now, the "F1 prompt" boot stage behaves like this: - if I leave F1 to be the default, boot fails, beeping when trying to boot like before. Nothing changes when pressing F1 multiple time (it always fails and beeps). - if I leave F2 to be the default, boot fails with "invalid partition" message and escapes to the boot: prompt - if I press F1 and then F2, it beeps on F1 but after F2 is pressed it proceeds to boot from s1a! I really don't know what is going on. The disk array is supposed to be "clean", without hidden partitions (at least, fdisk doesn't see any). Is the loader re-reading the table after a failed boot (with F1), and something corrupts the data on first read? Or maybe it's a boot0 bug? Any ideas? As it stands, the machine can't boot unattended, which makes it unusable. More info: at the /boot/loader stage, lsdev shows disk0 as A:, but the floppy doesn't exist on this machine, and disk1 as C:, with normal partitions (e.g. disk1s1a, etc.)
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