From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 23:23:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 52406DAD for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:23:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 046F2256A for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.erewhon.home (slackbox.xs4all.nl [83.162.243.5]) by smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s6TNN35X030347; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:23:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.erewhon.home (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 45CA812422; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:23:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:23:03 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Brian Wood Subject: Re: Problem booting Message-ID: <20140729232303.GA86963@slackbox.erewhon.home> Mail-Followup-To: Brian Wood , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20140728201316.GA75558@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140728232101.GA1425@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140729070805.GA2594@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140729185337.GA5146@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140729204442.GA9077@slackbox.erewhon.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:23:12 -0000 --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 04:19:51PM -0500, Brian Wood wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Roland Smith wrote: >=20 > > > > Looks like devfs is configured to not show the partitions. Damn. Try > > running > > `devfs 'rule add path * unhide'` as root to make all possible device no= des > > show up. Then look again for partitions on ada; `ls /dev/ada*` > > > > > I didn't use any ticks or quotes in the following >=20 > pcbsd# devfs rule add path * unhide > devfs rule: unknown argument: ad4 >=20 > pcbsd# devfs rule add path ada* unhide > devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RADD: Input/output error >=20 > Should I use some ticks or quotes? Yes, like this: devfs rule add path '*' unhide Otherwise the * will be expanded by the shell. > Nothing new under dev yet. >=20 > > What output does `gpart show` produce? It should give you all the > > partitions > > on all available drives. > > > > > It lists cd0 and iso9660 Weird. Maybe there is something in the way PCBSD is set up, I don't know. I= 've never used it. Is there anything in the PCBSD boot CD/image that you can use to mount the harddisks in the computer? Or could you try booting from a original FreeBSD live CD/memstick? Otherwise you might have to wait for someone knowledgable in PCBSD to weigh in. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 5753 3324 1661 B0FE 8D93 FCED 40F6 D5DC A38A 33E0 (keyID: A38A33E0) --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJT2CzXAAoJEED21dyjijPgVaYP+wfp9JYtUSpWp5iqi/BZBWRo Fqc9xP+jEtZKEzkeN/9jH05Npzlsuux0WmyQ6gEA7wavgXtkqfdOrXpEsaesKWZr gEeqJFcWHLCuGrsUDroBtOFUt2gtpUJmKHNsowmXv7CCYb3lMKzbfXHxJC6XiHsE TmRIGj4Ht3BNrosj/1GTKT3RPaVsakMZO0GweAxVYPwSBSxXnqgIkJ6+o0GDPD2Y +WslOhF76PYo/xqQWEqoLXzOvGUuPbCWx+ywEJBRt0st61/0f6Ul/9WTzddsR4Yp pnAjHZ6UcS8MG/qNnGab0WT6YB4OK5cIfL7cMqVjR3SrJ+x2dx49GRak2z5D2IyP ClnjCnZdn5aadFPd5/1PO5f94HjOMAVgcvI/41kCMkBCT+dZGkMgfQHIM0yxJEE2 PHC9L7t7BstHWTErFiL0pwpAXnejh6KGNn2dowVvlhAD0h5PvhGai5UptP3yMvqM CuWkl5LTfXPDme+HasSes2+btJkg0rrNofX1QT38HnwlE2lAoarHi/CeUqrAuZFB z5w0hwc6vfvXu0WbxO65QzlMefyhrtJu5/dy79aSDmyRtaPZXrRYDA9YAWV4CDWM Bui4Pph8P/bOo9FdYZ1O24Q+w4UvxcGsBAyc8HK8rCJfqbTjMsbirsgJvHX0Pvfe 1IH5ctgDGz1wdHOzzCl2 =JBL+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RnlQjJ0d97Da+TV1--