From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 20 19:47:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hal9000.bsdonline.org (ffaxvawx3-4-047.cox.rr.com [24.168.203.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E61B737B422 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by hal9000.bsdonline.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6DDDC1F5A; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:42:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:42:09 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1 install won't boot (but 4.0 will!) Message-ID: <20000920004209.O80970@hal9000.bsdonline.org> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200009192336.KAA22701@lightning.itga.com.au> <14792.10871.244054.687154@yertle.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14792.10871.244054.687154@yertle.kciLink.com>; from khera@kciLink.com on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:09:43PM -0400 Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vivek Khera said... > Try the DD mode. I did a box yesterday that would not boot for the > life of me without being dangerously dedicated. During my attempt to do a RELENG_3 to RELENG_4 update the "quick and easy" way - bootstrapping from my 4.1 CD, naturally forgetting to read the errata beforehand, I ended up trying just about every kind of install, including dangerously dedicated, but was still not able to boot. I tried just about every FDISK partition and slice option as well as boot0cfg and other command line tricks to no avail. I'm at a loss to explain why, given how DD booting works and the problem with boot0 in the 4.1 CD. If it helps, my box is a Gateway G6-266M with an IDE disk as master on the first bus with no slave. In the end, I used the FDISK partition option on my 4.0 CDs which made the system bootable. This was enough to install a new world and mergemaster away to mess in /etc from the 4.1 CD + 4.0 CD. So, in at least one case, a DD install from the 4.1 CD wouldn't boot. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@altavista.net | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message