Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:36:08 -0400 From: J David <j.david.lists@gmail.com> To: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9-STABLE doesn't boot: can't load 'kernel' Message-ID: <CABXB=RQrFEju_pFtfMiK2aCg5SZN1MGj3=zoj%2BucoGv4Pz0szA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <516C63CC.4030609@gmail.com> References: <CABXB=RRY1qz5=Mo%2B75ATA%2B64XmhL=%2BLXpENiBbN=voT5nLQ1aA@mail.gmail.com> <516C63CC.4030609@gmail.com>
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loader.conf was empty and there's no 4k gnops, geli, anything like that.
This is a 100% normal install.
Although, since you mentioned 4k blocks, I did leave a gap between ada0p1
and ada0p2 to start the root partition on a 4k boundary. (It's an SSD that
will almost never be written to once installed, so that might be a bit
silly, but it's a habit already.)
I decided to try this again without the gap, and that seems to have worked.
I made it through install and partitioning and OS updating to 9-STABLE and
installing new boot blocks and it seems to have worked. I even got it to
work with a ZFS root.
Here's the partition table I ended up with:
=> 34 234441581 ada0 GPT (111G)
34 990 1 freebsd-boot (495k)
1024 226051072 2 freebsd-zfs (107G)
226052096 8389519 3 freebsd-swap (4.0G)
I'm not sure why this would make a difference, but either it does or doing
it cleared out whatever else was wrong. This box will be stress tested and
rebooted quite a bit in the next few days, so I will report back if it
comes unglued. :)
Thanks for the suggestion!
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