From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 04:05:55 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 4847A16A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:05:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.datausa.com (mail.datausa.com [216.150.220.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D108043D1F for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:05:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@wcubed.net) Received: (qmail 4411 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2004 04:03:41 -0000 Received: from web.datausa.com (HELO webmail.wcubed.net) (216.150.220.132) by mail.datausa.com with SMTP; 17 Jun 2004 04:03:41 -0000 Received: from 24.9.172.8 (SquirrelMail authenticated user freebsd@wcubed.net) by webmail.wcubed.net with HTTP; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:03:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <2045.24.9.172.8.1087445008.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> In-Reply-To: <20040616144028.W16072@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <2398.24.9.172.8.1087316143.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> <20040616144028.W16072@carver.gumbysoft.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:03:28 -0600 (MDT) From: "Brad Waite" To: "Doug White" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: Brad Waite 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: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:05:55 -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. It's possible but unlikely that loader is corrupted. I had the same problem a few months ago under 4.9. Plus, I already made world, so that should have built a fresh version, but it's doing the same thing as the stock 4.10 install. >> 1. Created a /boot.config containing "0:da(0,a)/kernel" > > Make sure you remove this when you get loader rebuilt. Any critical reason for doing this, other than giving me the options found in loader? >> 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 /? :-) Yep. That's what I can't figure out. Is boot2 doing something different on a non-root directory because I'm on a RAID controller instead of a regular ad or da device? Oh, I just realized that it can't be a corrupt loader - when I moved it to / it woke up fine. I know some assembly, but I can't readily make heads or tails of boot2. Is that beyond the scope of freebsd-stable? Thanks again for any help.