Re: [pfSense-discussion] Won't boot

2005-09-30 Thread Scott Ullrich 
Hello, do you still have acecss to this box?   If so could you perform
this after installation and send me the results?

dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=/tmp/cpressey.bin bs=32k count=1

Then send /tmp/cpressey.bin

Thanks!

On 9/16/05, Angus Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Yes, extremely similar.  But there is no F1 choice like on my other FreeBSD
 machines.  Also, it does NOT say:

  Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
 Guessed BIOS device 0x not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:

  When I type lsdev at the OK prompt, I get this:

  cd devices:
  disk devices:
 disk0:  BIOS drive A:
 disk1:  BIOS drive C:
disk1s1:  FFS bad disklabel
  pxe devices:


  Obviously it does seem to be a problem with the disklabel...I will try some
 of the things it says in that thread...see what happens to me.

  Thank you,
  Angus


 On 9/16/05, Oliver Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hi,
 
  By any chance, does your bootup error message ressemble to the one
 described
  by Christian in
 
 http://www.mail-archive.com/support@pfsense.com/msg01108.html
 ?
 
  Just checking... ;O)
 
  Oliver
  -Original Message-
  From: Angus Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: September 16, 2005 3:02 PM
  To: discussion@pfsense.com
  Subject: [pfSense-discussion] Won't boot
 
 
  I am attempting to install the live cd version to my hard drive, but I am
  having problems.
 
  I go through the install procedure without any issues, then when it
 reboots
  it tells me that it cannot load a kernel and gives me an ok prompt.
 
  Normally, in FreeBSD I have been able to type 'ls', and find the kernel
 but
  this will not let me Cannot find specified file appears when doing so.
 
  Does anyone have any clues?  I have tried reinstalling (deleted all
  partitions a few times) about 4 times all with the same results...
 
  Thank you,
  Angus Jordan

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Won't boot

2005-09-30 Thread Dan Swartzendruber 

At 03:52 PM 9/30/2005, you wrote:

Oh my...this machine was re-tasked yesterday...

I am planning on doing the same thing on my fwl at home...if I have 
the same issues then I will definitely get all of this information.


One thing worth mentioning is there was a difficulty with the BIOS 
settings on this machine.  For some reason it was not setting the 
bios settings to LBA...but to CHS by default.  It's a 40GB drive, so 
I don't see why it would not detect LBA by default...anyhow, when 
reinstalling FBSD 5.4 on this box I had similar difficulties with it 
as I did with pfsense.  I went into the BIOS and set the mode to LBA 
manually and my issues went away...not sure if it applies here, but 
perhaps this is a faulty/buggy bios...?


I was wondering that, myself.