From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 13:31:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A456B16A52C for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:31:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.tznet.com (smtp.tznet.com [66.170.64.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBC643D1D for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:31:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ttor@tznet.com) Received: from mail.tznet.com (mail.tznet.com [66.170.64.2]) by smtp.tznet.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j37DV5ub071146 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 08:31:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 08:31:01 -0500 (CDT) From: "Rich O." X-X-Sender: richo@mail.tznet.com To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050406092801.M62487@mail.tznet.com> Message-ID: <20050407082512.V81643@mail.tznet.com> References: <20050406092801.M62487@mail.tznet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-T-Net-Virus-Scan: 66.170.64.6: Clean Subject: Re: can't open /boot/loader X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:31:33 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Rich O. wrote: > > My problem now is that when I try to boot from the SCSI disk where > it was installed I get the error "can't open file /boot/loader". In my > researching I only found a suggestion that the / slice had to be the first > one on the SCSI disk and it doesn't work having something else being the > first slice (like swap). This isn't the case though because / is the first > slice... > I found the fix to this myself actually... While playing around with the fixit option (which I stupidly didn't know actually worked on one of the CDs without having a floppy image) I found that I could mount /dev/da0a (the / slice) just fine and /boot/loader was there. Everything looked fine from what I could tell. I ended up running `bsdlabel -B /dev/da0` from the fixit prompt and then attempting to reboot using the harddrive. This actually worked and now I have FreeBSD-5.3 up and running for the first time ever on my Miata/PWS 433au I figured I would post my findings for anyone else that may have this issue. Thanks. ~Rich O. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCVTYZ0uIdAG/2leYRAjhDAJ9FE7lyG9eLyVojvhsHRiA8BeP5kACfT145 cnMRoCo0LJmLW/SFkszlVFk= =+GF4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----