Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:13:04 +0100 From: "Dampure, Pierre Y." <pierre.dampure@alveley.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Oddities Message-ID: <3959A580.E6EDE4EC@alveley.org> References: <39598B27.341B68CC@alveley.org>
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"Dampure, Pierre Y." wrote: > > Apologies if this ought to be in -questions rather than -current, but > since I first noticed the problem on 5.0-20000621-CURRENT... > > The above snapshot was installed on a brand new system (OR840, 2x733EB, > 512MB RDRAM, 1xAHA2940UW, 4x9.1Gb Barracuda). The disk organisation is > as follows: > > da0: one NTFS partition (W2K), FreeBSD multiboot MBR installed > da1: fully dedicated, FreeBSD, has the root partition (da1s1a) > da2: fully dedicated, FreeBSD > da3: fully dedicated, FreeBSD > > Since this is a recent snapshot, I assume it defaults to use loader(8). > > When the system boots, I get the usual F1/F5 choice, as follows: > > F1 ?? > F5 Drive 1 > > Default: F5 > > Selecting F5 (or letting the timer run to completion) leads to the > following: > > Disk error 0x1 (lba=0xe0040) > No /boot/loader > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 1:da(1,a)/kernel > boot: > > then proceeding to load /kernel, rather than /boot/loader (which is why > I posted about problems with nlist (aka top/vmstat/systat) a few days > ago). > > If I hit a key early enough, I get: > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 1:da(1,a)/boot/loader > boot: > > Hitting RETURN then leads to: > > Disk error 0x1 (lba=0xe0040) > No /boot/loader > > after which I need to enter 1:da(1,a)/kernel to proceed. > > Needless to say, /boot/loader IS on da1s1a (with its usual assortment of > .rc and .conf in required places), which is why I am a bit surprised. > > Can anyone shed a light on the above? I now know how to get around the > nlist issue, but this is not the recommended method... > > Configuration files available upon request. > > Best Regards, > > PYD FWIW, I DID have a look at the archives before posting... the only thread that looks remotely related is: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3392426+3394340+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-current/19990509.freebsd-current but this is in the case of IDE drives, not SCSI... CAM reports my drives as having a (255H 63S/T 1106C) geometry, so even with a 512Mb root partition I am still under the 1023 cylinders limit (if even applicable to SCSI devices). Best Regards, PYD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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