Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:36:33 +1100 From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: 4.1 install won't boot (but 4.0 will!) Message-ID: <200009192336.KAA22701@lightning.itga.com.au>
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We are trying to install 4.1 from the WC CDs onto an HP Vectra XA. (PentiumPro
200, 64Mb Ram, one hard disk on ata0-master, one CD-ROM on ata1-master - dmsg
attached below.)
This machine boots from CD and the boot floppies just fine. We can install
the OS, all goes fine. (We've tried about 6 times, using various combinations
of standard/quick/custom install). We are using the whole disk for FreeBSD,
but not using dangerously dedicated. We have tried using the standard MBR or
BootEasy.
But when we try and boot the machine from the hard disk, it won't boot. All we
get (after the POST) is a single "-" in the top LH corner of the screen. No
whirly, no error messages, no BTX loader banner, nothing but the single "-".
Needless to say, NT and Linux install and boot on this machine just fine.
And FreeBSD 4.0 from the WC CDs installs and boots just fine.
And we have installed from the same 4.1 CDs onto other machines with no
problems, so I don't think it's a problem with the CDs themselves.
We have booted using the boot floppies then run the fixit floppy (can't use the
Fixit CD-ROM for some reason - see my post from yesterday) and tried "disklabel
-B" and "fdisk" and various other incantations, without success.
Any clues about how we might track this down? What has changed since 4.0?
(We are happy to try alternate boot blocks etc if someone has something to
test, but this machine will have to be put onto a user's desk early next week,
so be quick!)
A copy of Dmesg from a boot with the boot floppies attached. The stuff about
invalid partition tables at the end is because the disk currently has Mandrake
Linux on it.
Greg.
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Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #0: Fri Jul 28 15:06:57 GMT 2000
jkh@ref4.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMFS
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 199739692 Hz
CPU: Pentium Pro (199.74-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x619 Stepping = 9
Features=0xf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV>
real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes)
config> intro
\^[[m\^[[H\^[[J\^[[3;26H\^[[m\^[[1m\^[[m\^[[6;11H\^[[m\^[[7m\^[[m\^[[7;11H\^[[m\^[[8;11H\^[[m\^[[11;3H\^[[m\^[[12;3H\^[[m\^[[13;3H\^[[m\^[[15;3H\^[[m\^[[16;3H\^[[m\^[[18;3H\^[[m\^[[19;3H\^[[m\^[[21;3H\^[[m\^[[7m\^[[m\^[[22;3H\^[[m\^[[1;1H\^[[m\^[[H\^[[Javail memory = 58945536 (57564K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc063e000.
Preloaded mfs_root "/mfsroot" at 0xc063e084.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Preloaded image </mfsroot> 2949120 bytes at 0xc036cd98
md1: Malloc disk
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
Correcting Natoma config for non-SMP
Correcting Natoma config for non-SMP
isab0: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 ATA controller> port 0x580-0x58f at device 4.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pci0: <Matrox MGA Millennium II 2164W graphics accelerator> at 10.0 irq 9
lnc0: <PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter> port 0xfce0-0xfcff mem 0xfedfbc00-0xfedfbc1f irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0
lnc0: PCnet-PCI II address 00:60:b0:7b:5b:43
lnc0: driver is using old-style compatability shims
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
unknown: <IDE CDROM DISABLED> can't assign resources
adv1: Invalid baseport of 0x220 specified. Nearest valid baseport is 0x230. Failing probe.
unknown0: <AUDIO> at port 0x220-0x22f,0x388-0x38f,0x534-0x537 irq 5 drq 1,3 on isa0
unknown1: <MPU401 MIDI> at port 0x330 irq 9 on isa0
adv1: Invalid baseport of 0x200 specified. Nearest valid baseport is 0x210. Failing probe.
unknown2: <GAME PORT> at port 0x200-0x207 on isa0
ad0: 2445MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL ST2.5A> [4969/16/63] at ata0-master using WDMA2
acd0: CDROM <MATSHITA CR-588> at ata1-master using PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c
ad0s1: raw partition size != slice size
ad0s1: start 63, end 96767, size 96705
ad0s1c: start 63, end 5007743, size 5007681
ad0s1: truncating raw partition
ad0s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice
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