Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:40:45 -0400 From: Sean <rsh.lists@comcast.net> To: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?) Message-ID: <4310DDDD.8040701@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050827141554.04e436d0@cobalt.antimatter.net> References: <431064F5.2020508@comcast.net> <6.2.3.4.2.20050827125557.05abd7d0@cobalt.antimatter.net> <4310D765.8030403@comcast.net> <6.2.3.4.2.20050827141554.04e436d0@cobalt.antimatter.net>
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Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 02:13 PM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: > >> Glenn Dawson wrote: >> >>> At 06:04 AM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: >>> >>>> Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. >>>> >>>> Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like >>>> the following example from the handbook >>>> >>>> >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT >>>> Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel >>>> boot: >>>> >>>> from my reading this is a boot2 stage >>>> >>>> booting from cd and going into Fixit it fdisk shows partition 1, 2, >>>> and 3 unused, and Freebsd is on partition 4. >>>> I thought it should be on partition 1? >>> >>> >>> How did you arrange the file systems when you installed. Did you use >>> the defaults, or your own layout? >>> The defaults would have given you 5 partitions inside of the first >>> slice. For example: >>> ad0s1a - / >>> ad0s1b - swap >>> ad0s1d - /var >>> ad0s1e - /tmp >>> ad0s1f - /usr >>> Did you not use the 'a' partition for your root file system? Second >>> stage boot code only knows how to find third stage on the 'a' partition. >>> More details on your installation would help in trying to figure out >>> what the problem is. >>> -Glenn >>> >>>> Note: on install I choose the Standard boot manager. >> >> >> I created the above partitions you listed manually and specified to my >> choice sizes, and i did choose 'a', or entire disk on creation. > > > The "entire disk" option is in the screen that lest you create slices, > which is completely different from the screen that lets you create your > partitions. (a, b, d, e, f, etc) > > Keep in mind that what is called a "partition" in other OS's is called a > slice in FreeBSD. > > You mentioned above that FreeBSD was installed in partition 4. Assuming > that's slice 4, are the device names something like /dev/ads4x. where > the x is the partition. Through Fitit, fdisk shows partions 1,2,and 3 unused, and Freebsd sitting in 4. bsdlabel shows on /dev/ad0s1 the six partitions, a, b, c, d, e, f Sysinstall, from the boot cd, shows the following disk name: ad0 and freebsd on ad0s1 disklabel shows ad0s1a, ad0s1d, ad0s1b, ad0s1e, ad0s1f, none of these partitions currently show a mount point, with the exception of b, which is swap. so now am even more puzzled by no mount showing.
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