From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 10: 5: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B5137B491 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 10:04:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark9 (hutch-969.hutchtel.net [209.105.45.69]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id MAA19906; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 12:04:24 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <003301c0938b$de9f6860$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Charlie Sorsby" , References: <200102100749.AAA00237@quail.swcp.com> Subject: Re: Sigh... Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 12:03:39 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Sorsby" To: Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:49 AM Subject: Sigh... > I give up... > > Is there a know problem with FreeBSD 3.4? > > I've been running 2.1.5 for a long time because I really hate > trying to fix everything that gets screwed up when a new version is > installed. I finally decided that I'd better update. > > I installed 3.4 from the Walnut Creek CDROM distribution. To > permit me to try to set up 3.4 as I had 2.1.5 set up, I've kept > 2.1.5--i.e. so I can boot to either. I'm sending this from 2.1.5. > How is your drive partitioned? You aren't trying to share filesystems between 2.1.5 and 3.4, are you? > I had booted to 3.4 and was trying (as I have been) to get ppp to > work. I also tried to install several versions of mahjongg. > > When I went to boot back to 2.1.5 (no success either with ppp or > with either of two versions of mahjongg) I found one of the boot > selector messages (I guess) that claimed I had no boot loader: > What do you mean by no success with ppp? What was the problem? > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:da(0,a) /boot/loader > boot: > No /boot/loader > > If I leave it alone, it just sits there; if I enter , it > repeates the same message. > > Thinking that the boot manager had somehow gotten munged, I tried > re-installing only that but found there's no option in the > installation software for that. Now, I find that (a) when I boot > to 3.4 (see below) it claims I'm an unknown user but if I try to > use adduser to add myself it says that crs is already a user (or > words to that effect). Even stranger, if I try to log in as > another user (hes), it says the same thing: crs Unknown user. > Note: It doesn't say hes unknown user; it says crs unknown user. > But if I try to log in as still another user, mes, it logs me in > successfully. > > But back to the boot loader problem: > > I've found that a hardware reset will allow me to boot back to > 2.1.5 even though the boot loader complaint still exists. I.e. > instead of hanging indefinitely athe the "No /boot/loader" message, > it proceeds (after a while) to boot. I didn't discover this until > after I'd tried to re-install the boot manager and munged something > in 3.4. I suppose that I'll have to re-install from scratch but > doubt that that will solve my "No /boot/loader" problem. > Somehow I don't think that I have a clear understanding of what you have done. Send more info on your hardware, and how you have the drive partitioned. Josh > What now? > > Thanks for any help. > > Charlie Sorsby > crs@swcp.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message