From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 25 05:17:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB00A106566B for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:17:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1578FC15 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:17:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyd8 with SMTP id 8so176622gyd.13 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:17:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=UkGl5YMH+z404D3EJUG5nPehKPAt6Xmafr0gEIJSzWA=; b=wt6F8CLChW52gCKWxrgwwCWmXgR1HobaCN2zzHD0q3y4KpK17ju9ZXY574AOrg9Brq PVB27wj25oXfSwrLBvmTW2A9Qi18BUXzG3b7DZ0+kpf28j0/MIOia10SX9TPqy0texWN Hg6jFAFTaCjMMRb/hvO9TTjcgUgi5oun+hIJw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.108.225 with SMTP id q61mr7078562yhg.66.1319519830727; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:17:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.236.109.39 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:17:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:17:10 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: DcaWU8YRJ5li_BLUgi15okQ3_ho Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: Stig B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-beta3, cannot boot after succesfull installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:17:11 -0000 Hi, Just because I'd like to ensure this doesn't get lost, would you please do an MBR install of 9.0-RELEASE on another disk, and then plug that in as a slave to the 8.x install? Do you have a USB<->SATA adapter, so you can attach the disk after boot? What I think will help the developers; * getting a copy of the first couple of kilobytes of the 9.0 MBR disk, so the 9.0 and 8.x MBR/boot/partition table stuff can be compared; * Does the system hang when it's the first disk, or _any_ disk? * If we're lucky, the disk will only hang if its the first disk - so we can try installing 8.x bootblocks on the 9.x disk and see if it works; * If we're unlucky and the 9.0 installed disk hangs when plugged in whether it's the boot disk or not - if it attaches as a USB disk (after the 8.x install is done) you can try putting the 8.x bootblocks on and see if the system boots. I doubt you'll be the only person with this problem so thankyou for bringing it to the FreeBSD lists - I bet for every one of you there's 99 others who would try, see it fail and give up without telling the rest of the FreeBSD community. :) Adrian