I repeated the setup attempt on another machine with different hardware
and got stuck with the same problem. Does anybody have a idea regarding
the obvious that I could be missing in order to get these systems to
boot? Otherwise I'll get someone to sit in front of the machine and
look at the screen during a boot attempt :-)
/czv
On Apr 17, 2005, at 8:31 PM, Chris Zumbrunn wrote:
I'm having a hell of a time trying to get a new development server to
boot FreeBSD.
The disk contents are an exact mirror from what I have running on a
production server, except for a different IP number in rc.conf. The
hardware is identical as far as I can tell.
The server is in a datacenter and I can only access it via ssh and
boot either from the local disks or via network (freebsd or linux) -
no serial console, so I can't see where it gets stuck during the
bootstrap.
Any attempt to boot from the local disks fails. I can't ping the
server for several minutes, until I give up and reboot again via
network. Nothing is written to /var/log/messages during the local boot
attempt.
I've reinstalled the bootstrap code several times both using
sysinstall to install a standard mbr and using fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0
ar0 and disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 ar0s1
I seem to run into this same kind of problem over and over again.
Usually I somehow get it to work eventually, without being able to
tell anymore what fixed it because of the mass of stuff I tried before
it just suddenly works :-)
How can I verify that I have a valid boot sector and mbr on that disk
(other than by attempting to boot)? Any tips on how to troubleshoot
these kinds of bootstrapping problems without sitting in front of the
box or having console access?
I'm happy to provide any additional infos regarding the details of the
setup. I'm mirroring a server that is running FreeBSD 4.11.
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