From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 19 18:39:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC8D16A4CE for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:39:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB5F43D1F for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:39:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5998972DF2; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:38:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548CD72DB5; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:38:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:38:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Brad Waite In-Reply-To: <2045.24.9.172.8.1087445008.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> Message-ID: <20040619113634.T48022@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <2398.24.9.172.8.1087316143.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> <2045.24.9.172.8.1087445008.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.10-STABLE boot issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:39:24 -0000 On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Brad Waite wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Brad Waite wrote: > > > >> I just installed 4.10 (and upgraded to 4.10-STABLE) on a 2 x 9GB SCSI > >> disk > >> AMI MegaRAID array (RAID0). I set up slices as I have previously with > >> 30GB+ IDE drives: > >> > >> 1GB swap > >> 29GB / > >> > >> Fdisk, label and the rest of install went fine, as did the update, but > >> on > >> all reboots (even before the update) I got the following error: > >> > >> Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x21fc09f) > >> No /boot/loader > > > > From what you got later, it looks like just /boot/loader got corrupted > > somehow. Go into src/sys/boot/i386 in your 4.10-STABLE tree and do 'make > > depend && make && make install' as root. That should rebuild & reinstall > > loader. > > It's possible but unlikely that loader is corrupted. I had the same > problem a few months ago under 4.9. Plus, I already made world, so that > should have built a fresh version, but it's doing the same thing as the > stock 4.10 install. > > >> 1. Created a /boot.config containing "0:da(0,a)/kernel" > > > > Make sure you remove this when you get loader rebuilt. > > Any critical reason for doing this, other than giving me the options found > in loader? loader arranges for the kernel symbols to be relocated properly, so ps and friends work again. :-) Otherwise you will get 'no namelist' errors. > >> To further investigate, I copied /boot/loader to / and changed > >> /boot.config to '0:da(0,a)/loader' and whaddya know? It now runs the > >> BTX > >> loader properly. > >> > >> So what's going on? Can anyone answer this stumper? > > > > Is /boot on /? :-) > > Yep. That's what I can't figure out. Is boot2 doing something different > on a non-root directory because I'm on a RAID controller instead of a > regular ad or da device? > > Oh, I just realized that it can't be a corrupt loader - when I moved it to > / it woke up fine. Are you __sure__ /boot is on /dev/da0s1a? You might try booting into fixit mode from the CDs and running a fsck. I wonder if the directory is corrupted. It obviously works for the rest of the world, and it doesn't look like a BIOS access problem since it can read the file fine if its on /. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org