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 have tried playing with fdisk and disklabel to try to cure this
problem, but continually get the example shown above.
With none of the above efforts working I have tried changing the
boot manager and no luck, both by reinstalling and just by using
sysinstall to modify the boot manager.I did get F1 FreeBSD when
trying the FreeBSD boot manager option, but it still did not start the system.
Thanks
Sean
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.
No matter how I approach this problem I always wind up in the same place.
I am guessing now that the MBR has a problem.
I doubt there's nothing wrong with the MBR per se, but if it's
looking in the wrong place for the third stage loader you'll see
exactly the problem you have.
-Glenn
Thanks
Sean
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