Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:01:39 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, tomdean@speakeasy.org Subject: Re: amd64/163442: boot/loader.conf not processed at boot time Message-ID: <201112211701.39995.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1324490127.6799.12.camel@asus> References: <201112190730.pBJ7UESQ097170@freefall.freebsd.org> <4EF1D472.5000708@FreeBSD.org> <1324490127.6799.12.camel@asus>
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On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:55:27 pm Thomas D. Dean wrote: > On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 07:43 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 12/20/11 1:06 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > > > Uh, so using grub to load the loader was the fix? That isn't a > > real fix. Can you disable the beastie (beastie_disable="YES") and > > the automatic boot (autoboot_delay="NO") in loader.conf and then > > either use a serial console or a camera to capture the messages on > > the screen when it loads the modules. Then do a boot -v from the > > prompt and save the output of 'dmesg' to a file after it boots. > > Put that file up somewhere where I can look at it to see if there > > were errors parsing the modules loaded from the loader. > > > > Sorry, I was not clear. > > I installed grub in my original configuration of the new machine, built > from components, no OS. I created gpt partitions on two disks with > linux. > > I installed windows 7 on the first disk, then, linux with grub on the > second disk, fixing grub to boot windows. Then, I installed FreeBSD on > the second disk. Again, I edited grub (in linux) to boot all three. > > At this point, I had grub configured to directly load the FreeBSD > kernel, not using the loader. So, any loader configurations were not > effective because the loader was never executed. The beastie never > appeared. Until the discussion on this list, I never noticed the > absence. This was a mistake on my part. I wanted to use the FreeBSD > loader and get the benefits of configuring modules, etc., at boot time. > > Going back to linux and configuring grub properly to use the FreeBSD > loader fixed the problem. > > I can try to gather information, but, I will have to go back to the > improper (broken?) grub configuration to do it. Oh, nevermind, I understand now. No need for further information. -- John Baldwin
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