Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 14:22:27 -0500 From: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <Jeffrey_M._Metcalf@ccMail.bms.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Strange problem with default boot device Message-ID: <3336D473.2229@ccMail.bms.com>
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Hello,
Since my upgrade to FreeBSD-2.1.5, I have been getting a weird problem
at boot time. Under 2.1.5, whenever I boot the installation floppy,
I get the following line:
[43:]fd(43,a)/kernel
as the default boot device. Since there is no fd(43), I get a
spontaneous reboot and am forced to type fd(0) each time to boot the
floppy successfully. This strange disease has infected booting from my
wd(0) device as well. Whenever I try to boot from wd(0), I get the
same line as above:
[43:]fd(43,a)/kernel
Here, of course, I am forced to type wd(0) at the boot prompt to avoid
a spontaneous reboot.
Now here's the interesting part. I recently upgraded (over PPP ftp) my
system to the 2.2-RELEASE. When booting from the new boot floppy, I get
what I expect as the default boot device
fd(0,a)/kernel
and all goes well, but I still get
[43:]fd(43,a)/kernel
and the spontaneous reboot problem when attempting to boot 2.2 from wd0.
Of course, I chose the upgrade option under the new sysinstall and all
my filesystems were NOT rebuilt from scratch. My guess is that the
new installation did not overwrite my booter with a new copy. Does
anybody suspect that if I were to go through the upgrade process again
(only bin distribution?), and set NEWFS to Y for ONLY the / fs, that
my problem will disappear? Is the booter actually on the root fs???
If so, are there any other concerns that I need to know about with
recreating the root filesystem from scratch aside from having to
recreate some /dev entries, restore /etc, and reset some symbolic links?
Should I expect my system to behave strangely with respect to my
preexisting packages/ports? (Note /var is its own fs.) Also, is bin
the only distribution I might potentially need to completely restore the
/ fs? Aside from various packages and ports, I have the following
dists installed on my system:
bin
manpages
src (sys only)
info
dict
proflibs (what exactly is this anyway?)
compat21
xf86
Thanks,
JM
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