From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 21:42:50 2004 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 1E36416A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:42:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F4643D48 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:42:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F3E4E72DF2; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:42:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24EC72DB5; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:42:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:42:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Brad Waite In-Reply-To: <2398.24.9.172.8.1087316143.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> Message-ID: <20040616144028.W16072@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <2398.24.9.172.8.1087316143.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.10-STABLE boot issues 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: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:42:50 -0000 On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Brad Waite wrote: > I just installed 4.10 (and upgraded to 4.10-STABLE) on a 2 x 9GB SCSI disk > AMI MegaRAID array (RAID0). I set up slices as I have previously with > 30GB+ IDE drives: > > 1GB swap > 29GB / > > Fdisk, label and the rest of install went fine, as did the update, but on > all reboots (even before the update) I got the following error: > > Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x21fc09f) > No /boot/loader >From what you got later, it looks like just /boot/loader got corrupted somehow. Go into src/sys/boot/i386 in your 4.10-STABLE tree and do 'make depend && make && make install' as root. That should rebuild & reinstall loader. > 1. Created a /boot.config containing "0:da(0,a)/kernel" Make sure you remove this when you get loader rebuilt. > To further investigate, I copied /boot/loader to / and changed > /boot.config to '0:da(0,a)/loader' and whaddya know? It now runs the BTX > loader properly. > > So what's going on? Can anyone answer this stumper? Is /boot on /? :-) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org