Re: bootless!
Randy Bush wrote: is there a recipe for making a 7.2 usb? Tried the UsbDevice command in NanoBSD? This won't give you a full FreeBSD installer, but you can build a 7.2 system with it just fine. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: bootless!
Randy, just something possibly useful for the future. Not sure if it really could have helped you here but perhaps it could: http://anonsvn.h3q.com/projects/freebsd-patches/wiki/manageBE I personally don't use manageBE, but I have a very similar setup/config. I perform all the boot-environment actions by hand rather than by a script. I do it that way because I perform major upgrades very infrequently (like once a month) and I like an additional exercise in keyboard punching :-) -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: bootless!
>> i386 running 7.2 as of aug 29 >> twe, gmirrored boot partition, zfs universe >> cvsupped 24 hours ago >> new kernel world >> will not boot. get beastie but stops at first twirly >> >> can boot old kernel -s, but not new kernel >> >> can not use old kernel with new world, hangs if i try to /etc/rc.d/zfs >> start > > A few questions: Have you cvsupped to 7-STABLE or 8? Are you using ZFS > root? Do you get anything extra with "boot -v"? Have you tried your > old loader (/boot/loader.old)? really dead ended with old systems. no, root not zfs. the post mortem by a friend: friday morning, while trying to solve some other problem (i no longer remember what), randy did a "make installworld" that broke psg.com's ability to use its zfs filesystems. obvious answer was to revert, but that turns out to be easier to say than to do with /usr offline. friday's attempts to roll back via net and remote hands failed, so randy diverted to seattle. after further whackiness on saturday with randy in the westin with a crash cart, it became clear that, even using the pre-zfs filesystems that had been sitting idle since the move to zfs, the machine was too messed up to be able to run "make world". many programs (eg, "ln") were failing with sigsys errors due to some kind of mismatch between userland and kernel. so we installed freebsd 7.2 from distro media onto a blank usb hard drive, whacked the bios with a club until it admitted to being able to boot from usb, and used that disk as a stable build platform capable of running csup and make world. this didn't solve the problem, but got us far enough that randy could check out of the westin. after further antics, gyrations, sacrifices of rubber chickens, and some sleep, we finally got zfs back up, installed new world and kernel, fixed all the things we had broken (well, that we could remember or had logged), and got the machine back up and running on its filesystems, with just enough time left for randy to eat dinner and head for the ferry to catch a red eye bound for nanog. so that's where we are now: randy's in transit and everything seems back to normal. initially exim was groaning under the load of a weekend's mail backlog, but that looks to be calming down. -30- ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: bootless!
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 21:13 -0400, Randy Bush wrote: > i386 running 7.2 as of aug 29 > twe, gmirrored boot partition, zfs universe > cvsupped 24 hours ago > new kernel world > will not boot. get beastie but stops at first twirly > > can boot old kernel -s, but not new kernel > > can not use old kernel with new world, hangs if i try to /etc/rc.d/zfs > start A few questions: Have you cvsupped to 7-STABLE or 8? Are you using ZFS root? Do you get anything extra with "boot -v"? Have you tried your old loader (/boot/loader.old)? Gavin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: bootless!
Randy Bush wrote: is there a recipe for making a 7.2 usb? randy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" If you mean for converting the ISOs to images you can dd to USB flash drives, http://acm.poly.edu/~spawk/image.sh. I found it somewhere else a long time ago, but it works. Note that you cannot install distributions from it, so you'll have to get those using FTP, another local filesystem, etc. -Boris ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: bootless!
is there a recipe for making a 7.2 usb? randy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: bootless!
Look at the footers of this email for how to remove yourself. Swearing will not get you any where, and is likely to result in people not helping you. Clifford, Ken wrote: Take me off this fucking list!@ From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Randy Bush [ra...@iij.ad.jp] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:13 PM To: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: bootless! i386 running 7.2 as of aug 29 twe, gmirrored boot partition, zfs universe cvsupped 24 hours ago new kernel world will not boot. get beastie but stops at first twirly can boot old kernel -s, but not new kernel can not use old kernel with new world, hangs if i try to /etc/rc.d/zfs start am desperate enough that i am flying from dc to seattle see if i can get it revved back to aug 29 with a fixit any clues appreciated. please use From: address, as my normal email is guess where. randy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: bootless!
2009/10/17 Clifford, Ken : > Take me off this fucking list!@ >From the bottom of the email you just sent: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" You're welcome. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: bootless!
> i386 running 7.2 as of aug 29 > twe, gmirrored boot partition, zfs universe > cvsupped 24 hours ago > new kernel & world > will not boot. get beastie but stops at first twirly > > can boot old kernel -s, but not new kernel > > can not use old kernel with new world, hangs if i try to /etc/rc.d/zfs > start > > am desperate enough that i am flying from dc to seattle see if i can get > it revved back to aug 29 with a fixit > > any clues appreciated. please use From: address, as my normal email is > guess where. oh, and yes, i did try verbose boot OK boot -v | randy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: bootless!
Take me off this fucking list!@ From: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Randy Bush [ra...@iij.ad.jp] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:13 PM To: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: bootless! i386 running 7.2 as of aug 29 twe, gmirrored boot partition, zfs universe cvsupped 24 hours ago new kernel world will not boot. get beastie but stops at first twirly can boot old kernel -s, but not new kernel can not use old kernel with new world, hangs if i try to /etc/rc.d/zfs start am desperate enough that i am flying from dc to seattle see if i can get it revved back to aug 29 with a fixit any clues appreciated. please use From: address, as my normal email is guess where. randy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
bootless!
i386 running 7.2 as of aug 29 twe, gmirrored boot partition, zfs universe cvsupped 24 hours ago new kernel world will not boot. get beastie but stops at first twirly can boot old kernel -s, but not new kernel can not use old kernel with new world, hangs if i try to /etc/rc.d/zfs start am desperate enough that i am flying from dc to seattle see if i can get it revved back to aug 29 with a fixit any clues appreciated. please use From: address, as my normal email is guess where. randy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
