From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 26 10:47:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B038516A4CF for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:47:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from alpha.logic.tuwien.ac.at (alpha.logic.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.175.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B3F43D39 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:46:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from preining@logic.at) Received: from gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at ([128.130.175.3]) by alpha.logic.tuwien.ac.at with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1CBWYU-0000AF-00 for FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:46:58 +0200 Received: from preining by gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1CBWYT-0007sx-00 for FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:46:57 +0200 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:46:57 +0200 To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <20040926104657.GA29418@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Norbert Preining Subject: problems with boot loader stage1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:47:00 -0000 Hi FreeBSD-Gurus! [Please Cc: me] Short Description: FreeBSD 4.10, installed on /dev/hde (linux lingo), booting via lilo (on hda) -> hde goes to stage0 but stops there. Longer: Recently I have installed FreeBSD (4.10) for compiling TeXlive binaries for i386-freebsd. I used some disk space on ad4/hde (bsd/linux lingo). linux fdisk shows: /dev/hde1 1 20887 167774796 83 Linux /dev/hde2 * 20888 24321 27583605 a5 FreeBSD Then I booted from the CDROM, selected ad4s2, made (bsd-)partitions therein (automatic: btw: Whay is there no /home allocated in the automatic system?) and installed the system. I decided to install the boot0 loader into the MBR of ad4. Then I added the following to my lilo.conf: other=/dev/hde loader=/boot/chain.b label=FreeBSD and tried to boot from there. But what happened: I arrived at boot0 with the following `menu': F1 Linux F2 FreeBSD F5 ?? Default: F2 and that was it, here no Enter, F2 or anything else worked, no reaction, beside Ctrl-Alt-Del and back to lilo. I tried similar lilo entries: other=/dev/hde2 table=/dev/hde loader=/boot/chain.b label=FreeBSD but here the screen stays black at all. To me it looks like there is no boot1 installed anywhere, or boot0 cannot access it. I suspect that this is a problem of the cylinder border. The slice 2 starts well above the 1024 cylinder (or was it sector). Can one of you tell me how I can boot this FreeBSD installation? I can access the bsd partitions in rw mode from linux (kernel-2.6 self compiled) and see all the files, but would really like to boot the beast ;-) [Please Cc: me] Thanks a lot and best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norbert Preining Technische Universität Wien gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLBATHIC (adj.) Gifted with ability to manipulate taps using only the feet. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff