Sergey Listopad <psychosensor <at> gmail.com> writes: > ... > As you can see, bootstrap process stuck much earlier kernel > booting/root mounting. It stuck on loader stage (loader can't do > something. But what exactly?) > > I've been able to boot system manually (so system on HDD is workable), > by skipping loader stage (boot kernel directly from boot block prompt) > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:ad(0p2)/boot/loader > boot:/boot/kernel/kernel
OK. So it looks like you have succeeded with stage 1 and 2. At this point the boot slice is known - the boot process knows where to find defaults. After that stage 3 should be auto-executed, but it does not. At this point check if you have /boot.config by chance. This file, if exists, may contain options modifying stages of the boot process, in this case the transition from stage 2 to 3 is of interest. Check it out and, if applies, read BOOT.CONFIG(5) and its examples. jb _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"