From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 6 15:36:53 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 15:36:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.getrelevant.com (mail.getrelevant.com [63.211.149.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2337337B400 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:36:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from khmere.com ([63.211.149.44]) by mail.getrelevant.com (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.5) with ESMTP id 2000120615341077:79640 ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:34:10 -0800 Sender: nathan@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3A2ECD7A.1E6A1FF3@khmere.com> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:36:26 -0800 From: Nathan Boeger Organization: Getrelevant X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: 4.2-RELEASE will not boot after install ? X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on notes/GetRelevant(Release 5.0.5 |September 22, 2000) at 12/06/2000 03:34:10 PM, Serialize by Router on notes/GetRelevant(Release 5.0.5 |September 22, 2000) at 12/06/2000 03:34:15 PM, Serialize complete at 12/06/2000 03:34:15 PM Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don't know if I should post here but.... I just installed 4.2-RELEASE onto a ppro 200 (had linux) the install went without a hich. Then when I rebooted, the box just stopped. It seemed like it could not read the mbr. So I booted again off the floppies and I used the loader to switched the currdev to the harddrive (disk1s1a) it found the hardrive. I then loaded the kernel from the harddrive and booted off the harddrive. After I was up on the box I then ran disklabel -B ad0 and thought that maybe the installation did not add the boot reccord info. Rebooted agian to have the same problem as before. I then tried it agian with the flags for the boot code, no luck. Finally I dd out the first 512 blocks of the harddrive and ran strings on it. Seems that thier was nothing their ! so I was lucky enough to have another 4.2 box and I just copied its first 512 blocks. Now it boots fine ! Is their a known issue with this ? or maybe I did something wrong ? thank you nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message