From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 16 06:36:10 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 426F36D0 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:36:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdavidlists@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-x231.google.com (mail-bk0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4008:c01::231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCDCDF71 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f49.google.com with SMTP id w12so68925bku.22 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:36:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=8K5LJpwq7Farx3Sz1oePvxXe7ABtNiEZBGqmR0812lY=; b=Bn7YU6oH64igDvBba4P9CKOnQ75l+64egQq6wxVxC0sSe66EGq/cvyF8BNNWg0IM8V erVGLUgJtgDhHzbztjsiDibCqaywcYtL5zp95NstN/1hm7wFDHPU7PlPG0Y6akw5mSo4 EjskQ9vcEcmKXJd3x6FWBJPTUVrJw5ZDlPWQsm5sjJVAzAvX/OWq1n3MPMfgGDvff3x1 sVfoHqIoCequLJd/vBfnkHtV/8UjdO9iFHQq+EtGbWj1sWCgNgPtyRoiqut86mkL5XVI N9EKhARzdL10/YZZLXgSqZ5qy/o2V4+G4f3Ez+Yl6a4epaUJcRNDjsiNmXS8uHtCZNXg 8ciA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.205.34.132 with SMTP id ss4mr221726bkb.88.1366094168779; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:36:08 -0700 (PDT) Sender: jdavidlists@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.53.71 with HTTP; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:36:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <516C63CC.4030609@gmail.com> References: <516C63CC.4030609@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:36:08 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8CDNnPY2vEBKrkku4-DNrYz-mw8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 9-STABLE doesn't boot: can't load 'kernel' From: J David To: Joshua Isom Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:36:10 -0000 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!