Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:47:35 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: rsh.lists@comcast.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?) Message-ID: <ov3bovxdag.bov@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050827141554.04e436d0@cobalt.antimatter.net> (Glenn Dawson's message of "Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:21:58 -0700") References: <431064F5.2020508@comcast.net> <6.2.3.4.2.20050827125557.05abd7d0@cobalt.antimatter.net> <4310D765.8030403@comcast.net> <6.2.3.4.2.20050827141554.04e436d0@cobalt.antimatter.net>
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Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> writes: > I doubt there's nothing wrong with the MBR per se, but if it's looking in the wrong place for the third stage loader > you'll see exactly the problem you have. Where "it's" probably refers to "boot code", not to the MBR, which doesn't look for anything except the confusingly-named "first-stage" boot loader (same as /boot/boot1) in the first sector of your 4th primary partition. Then that loads the second-stage boot loader (same as /boot/boot2) which gives the "boot:" prompt after failing to run /boot/loader and failing to run a kernel. It seems that finding boot1 and boot2 is possible with bad geometry, but finding /boot/loader or the kernel is not. ???
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