Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:17:10 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Stig B <stigberth@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-beta3, cannot boot after succesfull installation Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=Qft=czedLX%2B6sEj75Q=tr=0x3v9pTf9Wc4LVxhs6F%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADMVLs2T%2BewP-1KOO=wPSVegQv%2BLHm-eg65m3Jq%2B5a1dq8i77A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADMVLs2T%2BewP-1KOO=wPSVegQv%2BLHm-eg65m3Jq%2B5a1dq8i77A@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, Just because I'd like to ensure this doesn't get lost, would you please do an MBR install of 9.0-RELEASE on another disk, and then plug that in as a slave to the 8.x install? Do you have a USB<->SATA adapter, so you can attach the disk after boot? What I think will help the developers; * getting a copy of the first couple of kilobytes of the 9.0 MBR disk, so the 9.0 and 8.x MBR/boot/partition table stuff can be compared; * Does the system hang when it's the first disk, or _any_ disk? * If we're lucky, the disk will only hang if its the first disk - so we can try installing 8.x bootblocks on the 9.x disk and see if it works; * If we're unlucky and the 9.0 installed disk hangs when plugged in whether it's the boot disk or not - if it attaches as a USB disk (after the 8.x install is done) you can try putting the 8.x bootblocks on and see if the system boots. I doubt you'll be the only person with this problem so thankyou for bringing it to the FreeBSD lists - I bet for every one of you there's 99 others who would try, see it fail and give up without telling the rest of the FreeBSD community. :) Adrian
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