Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 09:20:36 +1100 From: Tony Frank <tfrank@optushome.com.au> To: Mike Newell <MNewell@HQ.NASA.GOV> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot loop in FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE after install - FIXED! Message-ID: <20040220222036.GA96615@marvin.home.local> In-Reply-To: <OCEOIMLMPEGCFKFPPJEOAEKICKAA.MNewell@HQ.NASA.GOV> References: <20040220030817.GA25852@marvin.home.local> <OCEOIMLMPEGCFKFPPJEOAEKICKAA.MNewell@HQ.NASA.GOV>
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Hi, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 04:49:00PM -0500, Mike Newell wrote: > Well THAT'S weird... > > I wondered if there might be some strange data left on the drive (I had a > 4.7-RELEASE install on it prior to this), so I stopped the system in POST > and entered the Adaptec system utilities. I then did a low-level format of > the drive. Reinstalled and Hey Presto - booted up fine! I wonder if the > /boot/loader program found some bad data left over from a prior install that > it didn't validate and that corrupted the boot process? > > Dunno, but it's up now. THANKS!! Good to hear it's working! Perhaps if there was a mismatch between boot1/boot2 or something. I'm not expert on the internals so I might leave this one there. Take care, Tony
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