From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 20 6:16:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com (bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com [155.208.254.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F1E37B43C for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 06:16:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (hpcpbla.bri.hp.com [15.144.112.65]) by bbnrel4.net.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D33813F5E; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:16:33 +0200 (METDST) Received: from sse0691.bri.hp.com (sse0691.bri.hp.com [15.144.0.53]) by hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.0) with ESMTP id OAA29184; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:16:31 +0100 (BST) Received: (from steve@localhost) by sse0691.bri.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA33206; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:19:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from steve) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 14:19:46 +0100 From: Steve Roome To: Gregory Bond Cc: Jordan Hubbard , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1 install won't boot (but 4.0 will!) Message-ID: <20000920141946.P8111@moose.bri.hp.com> References: <200009200411.PAA00278@lightning.itga.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200009200411.PAA00278@lightning.itga.com.au>; from gnb@itga.com.au on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:11:10PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:11:10PM +1100, Gregory Bond wrote: > > I've gone from mkisofs to mkhybrid for making my ISO images. Hmmm! > > Relax! There seems to be no problem with the CD as the CD boots fine, and > installs fine. It's just that the resulting system will not boot from the > hard disk. > > Current indications is a problem with the new 1024-byte boot0 (even after the > patch mentioned in ERRATA.TXT), as installing the old 512-byte boot0 from a 4.0 > CD allows the system to boot. I'm talking with John Baldwin about tracking it > down.... This machine I'm on is a Vectra XU (dual ppro 200, which I think is fairly similar), I can check an old XA out of my cupboard of knackered bits if you have really are having no luck. For me I had problems getting the BIOS on the XU to boot from the default SCSI disk, for some reason it never liked it much, I just put a floppy in and when I get the boot: prompt from that chose da0 as the boot device. I actually have two of these machines on my desk. (to replace the XA which was getting on a bit!) and one boots okay and the other doesn't... Here's an XU that does boot okay : ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2033 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2033 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 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,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 32, size 4163552 (2032 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 1023/ sector 32/ head 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: Here's one that doesn't : ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=7415 heads=109 sectors/track=11 (1199 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=7415 heads=109 sectors/track=11 (1199 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,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 11, size 8890574 (4341 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 1023/ sector 11/ head 108 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: Still, beats me, but as I said, if you have no luck with other things I'll try to make time to test an XA for you. [no-one round here's going to be installing Windows 2000 on it in a hurry =) ] Good luck, Steve N.B. This is a personal comment, not as a representative of HP. These are my views/opinions etc. not the opinions or standard responses of Hewlett Packard. In no way is this support. I'm just an HP-UX sysadmin anyway, what would I know about PC's ! =) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message