From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 6:50:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kendra.ne.client2.attbi.com (kendra.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.23.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2377037B41B for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:50:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ADERBYSHIREPL (gw.meetingmaker.com [63.150.232.194]) by kendra.ne.client2.attbi.com (Postfix) with SMTP id F2D091555D for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:50:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <001501c213aa$73076df0$e603010a@int.meetingmaker.com> From: "Drew Derbyshire" To: Subject: making a partition bootable? Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:50:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a P/II 350 with matched SCSI disks on a AHA-29160. The disk layouts are identical, with a NT and FreeBSD slices. FreeBSD partitions within the slice are root (one disk unused, of course), swap, and vinum partitions, with the vinum partition mirroring several file systems (/usr, /var/ usr/export, /usr/scratch). For reasons lost in the mists of time, the disk I'm actually booting off is the second drive (/dev/da1s2a). I tried switching back to the first drive, and some "thing" simply reports "read error". The actual root partition (/dev/da0s2a) is fine; if I boot from the install CD, I can direct it to load the kernel from the first disk root and things go great. Likewise, I can even boot off the MBR on the first drive and tell it chain to the second drive (F5), and that boots fine as well. But I can't boot directly off the first root partition. So my MBR, kernel, and root partition are all fine on that first disk, but the boot blocks in the partition seem hosed. How do I fix it? -- Drew Derbyshire Internet: ahd+mm@kew.com Telephone: 781-279-9812 Cell: 781-771-5981 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message