Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:48:16 +0200 (CEST) From: <whizzter@acidjazz.net> To: <freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org> Subject: problem booting 5.2.1 Message-ID: <3100.217.215.212.55.1082029696.squirrel@www.acidjazz.net>
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i've installed 5.2.1 and after creating a new fat32 partition on the same disk it stopped booting, however as i had problems during the install i hope the description here should help narrow it down. --------- when i got the computer i had 2 preformatted fat32 partitions, so before installing i destroyed the second one and created a new smaller one so i could fit freebsd on a new. i started the installer and got created a partition and selected the boot manager, however when doing commit the installer complained about not being able to create/use a node named something in the lines of ad1s3.. (my guess is that there was no device present for the 3rd partition). i went back into XP and removed the second partition from there. after that the installer (kern/mfsroot floppies) refused to boot. after trying some things i was able to get the installer to start again by recreating the second partition i had when i did my first try. this time i deleted the second partition from within the installer and after that i was able to successfully install fbsd on a second partition (kinda confirms my suspicion about the installer, it might just be that a few nodes is missing from the mfsroot maybe?) having installed i was successful in booting both xp and fbsd. but i had 12 gigs of unused space after the bsd partition so i created a new fat32 drive from within xp, after doing that fbsd stopped booting. trying to boot the installer again gave the same error i had before with it hanging during boot. the UFS2 partition is still intact as i can access it thru the bootloader, using show and lsmod from within the bootloader also shows that it's trying to use the correct root. the hanging kernel pops up in slightly different places depending on if i try to boot the installer or the installed kernel. but roughly in the same place during device initialization, the installer kernel hangs after some pci_cfgintr line and the installed one hangs after displaying something about the agp bus (setting the verbose flag while booting shows the kernel saying setting "setting gatt size to 256mb". however i guess that these lines are unrelated as i was able to install the kernel and even start Xfree. and that the problems has been connected to me changing the partition layout. but i hope that you can somewhat guess where the kernel gets stuck. the kernel approximately displays around 15-20 lines of output before hanging. Thanks in advance. / Jonas Lund
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