From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 02:11:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC1C16A41F for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:11:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crapsh@monkeybrains.net) Received: from mail.monkeybrains.net (mail1.monkeybrains.NET [207.7.142.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817C643D45 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:11:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crapsh@monkeybrains.net) Received: from [192.168.0.111] (busymonkey.monkeybrains.net [66.92.187.117]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.monkeybrains.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0O2BPiA063878 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:11:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crapsh@monkeybrains.net) Message-ID: <43D58CCE.6010002@monkeybrains.net> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:11:26 -0800 From: Rudy Rucker User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060120) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20060123120028.9F3F016A422@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060123120028.9F3F016A422@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on mail.monkeybrains.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Boot problem (hangs at/in loader) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:11:27 -0000 I installed FreeBSD on a disk and have this problem: The boot manager comes up and shows: F1: FreeBSD F5: Disk 2 If I hit F1 (or wait a few seconds), The 'puter drops down a line, shows a minus (-) sign in the bottom left hand corner and stays there until I hit any key on the keyboard. I ran: boot0cfg -B /dev/ad0 and the problem did not go away. What else could I try so that the computer will boot/reboot unattended? Rudy > fdisk ad0 ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=387621 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=387621 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 390716802 (190779 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 768/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: > bsdlabel ad0s1 # /dev/ad0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1048576 16 4.2BSD 2048 16384 8 b: 1048576 1048592 swap c: 390716802 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 20971520 2097168 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 e: 2097152 23068688 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 f: 16777216 25165840 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 g: 348773746 41943056 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 > uname -a FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #3: Tue Jan 17 09:22:44 PST ... > df -h (don't you love that h) Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 496M 51M 405M 11% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad2s1d 15G 518M 14G 4% /var /dev/ad0s1e 989M 1.0M 909M 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1f 7.7G 3.3G 3.9G 46% /usr /dev/ad0s1g 161G 4.0K 148G 0% /data procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev