Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 14:00:56 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Crash on boot when disks are present? Message-ID: <200003031900.OAA00895@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <v04220805b4e5b432fdad@[195.238.1.121]>
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On 03-Mar-00 Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:01 AM -0500 2000/3/3, John Baldwin wrote: > >> Recently, I fixed a bug in the loader >> for emulating one of the BIOS calls used by some RAID adapters. >> Could you try using the boot floppies from the latest 3.x-snap >> on releng3.freebsd.org instead? Thanks. > > If this were to work, how would I get an updated copy of booteasy > written to the MBR of the hard disk? This is not currently a > production machine, so I can afford to do things like cvsup, then > make buildworld, make installworld, mergemaster, etc.... cvsup and make world to the latest stable. Then use disklabel to rewrite the boot blocks on the drive. # disklabel -B da0 (or wd0 or whatever you have) > If I'm going to give this a try, I want to make sure that I know > what the process is for updating the MBR on the hard drive. Ok, no problem. >> No, this is the loader itself faulting, BSD itself isn't actually up >> and running yet, so we can't write to /var/crash at this point. > > That's what I figured. Thanks for the confirmation. No problem. HTH. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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