Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-24 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: On 23 June 2013, at 20:39, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR. All went fine till I tried to reboot the system. It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount

Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Doug Hardie
I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR. All went fine till I tried to reboot the system. It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount from ufs:/dev/ada0p2. That won't work. If I enter ufs:/dev/ada0s1a then the system boots fine and runs. I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:47:53 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice. How do I do that? I couldn't find anything in the handbook on that. You need to install the GPT boot code, e. g. # gpart add -t freebsd-boot -l gpboot -b 40 -s 512K

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:47:53 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice. How do I do that? I couldn't find anything in the handbook on that. You need to install the GPT boot

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR. All went fine till I tried to reboot the system. It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount from ufs:/dev/ada0p2. That won't work. The loader should be getting that information from /etc/fstab. Have the

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:47:53 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice. How do I do that? I couldn't find anything in the handbook on that. You need to install the GPT boot code, e. g. # gpart

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:47:53 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice. How do I do that? I couldn't find anything in the handbook

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On 23 June 2013, at 20:39, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR. All went fine till I tried to reboot the system. It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount from ufs:/dev/ada0p2. That won't work.

Re: Boot Loader Issue

2013-06-23 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:35:20 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: On 23 June 2013, at 20:39, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: The loader should be getting that information from /etc/fstab. Have the entries there been changed? That was the problem. The system used GPT before and I can't

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-07 Thread jb
jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: ... Next problem: the FB 9.1 dmesg differs on: - VB VM pnp bios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum ... orm0: ISA Option ROM at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff pnpid ORM on isa0 Correction - on real hardware none of the

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: Hi, host=CentOS guest=FreeBSD in VirtualBox FB 9.1 installation seemed to be normal (there was a one page text at the end that quickly disappeared, but could not catch it ...), Perhaps those messages I could not catch were relevant, because it seems

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and this is how install offers to configure the network; but my host has Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express, which is bge0 driver in FB. How

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: I selected powerd service during install, but after boot, there was error msg: starting powerd powerd lookup freq: No such file or directory /etc/rc: WARNING failed to start powerd Again -- standard for VirtualBox hosts: powerd doesn't work -- the

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org writes: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and this is how install offers to configure the network; but my host has Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: when I am logged out from FB, and I do (I tested it repeatedly) Machine-Close-Power off the machine to cloce VM with FB, then on subsequent VM Start and FB reboot I get error msgs: ... Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ada0s1a [rw]...

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org writes: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: I selected powerd service during install, but after boot, there was error msg: starting powerd powerd lookup freq: No such file or directory /etc/rc: WARNING failed to start powerd Again

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:52, jb wrote: Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org writes: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and this is how install offers to configure the network; but my host has Broadcom Corporation

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 12:09, jb wrote: A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation env (VB here) ? If so, would it make sense to sanitize it to avoid offering install options that are irrelevant/inappropriate ? This is FreeBSD. It doesn't hold your hand and wipe the

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Michael Powell
jb wrote: [snip] But I also could not ping: $ ping -c 1 google.com I have VM-Settings-Network Attached to NAT What is the correct setting here ? Vbox will not allow ping and/or traceroute type traffic through NAT. It states this somewhere in the docs. This normal to NAT. I've used both

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 06/01/2013 12:09, jb wrote: A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation env (VB here) ? If so, would it make sense to sanitize it to avoid offering install options that are irrelevant/inappropriate ? This is FreeBSD. It doesn't hold

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Michael Powell nightrecon at hotmail.com writes: ... What I have not done is tried all the various partitioning schemes available under Manual config. Possibly one, such as Dos MBR or BSD disklabel which I have not tried, may be broken boot-loading wise. I only went straight down the GPT

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: [snip] The converse may be applicable as well, that Vbox has configurability to know a little something about the environment for the proposed guest. When creating a new VM, you can choose BSD in the Operating System drop-down and then choose FreeBSD or FreebSD-64.

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 01/06/2013 01:51 PM, Michael Powell wrote: Michael Powell wrote: [snip] The converse may be applicable as well, that Vbox has configurability to know a little something about the environment for the proposed guest. When creating a new VM, you can choose BSD in the Operating System drop-down

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 12:09:12 + (UTC), jb wrote: A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation env (VB here) ? FreeBSD can only detect hardware certainly to a specific point. The idea behind virtualization is that it presents non-existent devices as if they were real.

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and this is how install offers to configure the network; but my host has Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013, Michael Powell wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: On 06/01/2013 12:09, jb wrote: A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation env (VB here) ? If so, would it make sense to sanitize it to avoid offering install options that are irrelevant/inappropriate

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: ... Next problem: the FB 9.1 dmesg differs on: - VB VM pnp bios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum ... orm0: ISA Option ROM at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff pnpid ORM on isa0 - on real hardware none of the above jb ___

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org writes: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: I selected powerd service during install, but after boot, there was error msg: starting powerd powerd lookup freq: No such file or directory /etc/rc: WARNING failed to start powerd Again

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org writes: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: when I am logged out from FB, and I do (I tested it repeatedly) Machine-Close-Power off the machine to cloce VM with FB, then on subsequent VM Start and FB reboot I get error msgs: ...

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk writes: ... There is no problem with interface em0, NAT, manual/DHCP config, and ping or traceroute. jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 19:02:43 + (UTC), jb wrote: Right, but the wordings are unfortunate and counterintuitive/misleading: 'Machine-Close-Send shutdown' means to 'shutdown -p now' (equivalent to 'poweroff') of Guest, followed by unforced Close of VM. 'Machine-Close-Power off' means Kill

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de writes: ... However, your transition of this knowledge to the terminology to be used in combination with _virtual_ machines makes sense. Maybe that wording is really not optimal. Kill guest matches today's understanding, but could possibly be formed better in

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 20:02:04 + (UTC), jb wrote: Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de writes: ... However, your transition of this knowledge to the terminology to be used in combination with _virtual_ machines makes sense. Maybe that wording is really not optimal. Kill guest matches

FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-05 Thread jb
Hi, host=CentOS guest=FreeBSD in VirtualBox FB 9.1 installation seemed to be normal (there was a one page text at the end that quickly disappeared, but could not catch it ...), virtual disk was set up as ada0 ada0s1 BSD ada0s1a / ada0s1b swap but after reboot: No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386

Re: Graphic /boot/loader menu

2011-12-20 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: Myself, personally, as much as I dislike the look of FreeBSD's boot menu, it does have the advantage of being very lightweight and adding minimal overhead to the booting process, which is an important consideration for

Re: Graphic /boot/loader menu

2011-12-18 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:13:44 +0800 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: What ever happened to the project to add an graphic boot/loader option menu? http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader I agree that FreeBSD could use a facelift in certain areas (the boot screen looks horribly

Graphic /boot/loader menu

2011-12-16 Thread Fbsd8
What ever happened to the project to add an graphic boot/loader option menu? http://wiki.freebsd.org/OliverFromme/BootLoader ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

boot/loader splash image

2011-07-17 Thread wayne mitchell
hey got question/problem for /boot/loader system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC trying to get a bitmap on screen for bootup - have read man page for all boot associated stuff (loader.conf...) and followed instructions using following

boot/loader splash image

2011-07-17 Thread wayne mitchell
hey got question/problem for /boot/loader system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup have read man page for all boot associated stuff (loader.conf...) and followed instructions using following

Re: boot/loader splash image

2011-07-17 Thread Fbsd8
wayne mitchell wrote: hey got question/problem for /boot/loader system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup have read man page for all boot associated stuff (loader.conf...) and followed

Re: boot/loader splash image

2011-07-17 Thread Duane Hill
Sunday, July 17, 2011, 6:07:57 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: wayne mitchell wrote: hey got question/problem for /boot/loader system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup have read man page for all boot

Re: boot/loader splash image

2011-07-17 Thread Pan Tsu
Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: wayne mitchell wrote: hey got question/problem for /boot/loader system: freeBSD 8.1-RELEASE GENERIC trying to get a bitmap onscreen for bootup have read man page for all boot associated

Re: Boot loader/kernel error

2010-10-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 07:09:48PM -0700, Hac Phan wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble with a machine that was recently rebooted and will no longer boot correctly. The boot process hangs with the following screen: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf It sounds like there is something in

Re: Boot loader/kernel error

2010-10-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 08), Hac Phan said: I'm having trouble with a machine that was recently rebooted and will no longer boot correctly. The boot process hangs with the following screen: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf - The cursor does not move and no other text is displayed.

Re: Boot loader/kernel error

2010-10-09 Thread Devin Teske
escape to the loader prompt by selecting the appropriate numeric option -- in the new loader, the old loader you simply had to press space-bar during the count-down to boot). The bread-crumbs in `/boot/loader.rc' lead us off to `/boot/loader.4th' if you want to know precisely how `/boot/loader.conf

Boot loader/kernel error

2010-10-08 Thread Hac Phan
Hi, I'm having trouble with a machine that was recently rebooted and will no longer boot correctly. The boot process hangs with the following screen: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf - The cursor does not move and no other text is displayed. After about 10 minutes, the boot finishes (without

Re: change default keymap for /boot/loader?

2010-08-21 Thread Alexander Best
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change default keymap for /boot/loader?

2010-08-17 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, just wanted to ask if there's a way to change the default US keymap for /boot/loader to something else? i have options UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP makeoptions UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=german.iso in my kernel conf, however this doesn't seem to apply to /boot/loader. cheers. alex -- a13x

FreeBSD/amd: boot/loader ignores usb-keyboard

2010-08-17 Thread Dr. A. Haakh
Hello, when i switched to an usb-keyboard some month ago, i realized, that boot/loader ignores input from this device. The bootmanager accepts input, loader not. Is there any configuration-parameter to fix this? Andreas ___ freebsd-questions

Re: change default keymap for /boot/loader?

2010-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:15:43 +, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, just wanted to ask if there's a way to change the default US keymap for /boot/loader to something else? i have options UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP makeoptions UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=german.iso

Upgrading Boot Loader

2010-08-02 Thread Tim Gustafson
Hi, I want to update my boot loader based on upgrading to FreeBSD 8.1. I originally installed FreeBSD 8.0 using the zfsinstall utility available at http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ and so my tank zpool is currently using version 13, whereas my other non-boot zpool is using version 14. After upgrading

Re: Upgrading Boot Loader

2010-08-02 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
02.08.2010 21:49, Tim Gustafson написав(ла): Hi, I want to update my boot loader based on upgrading to FreeBSD 8.1. I originally installed FreeBSD 8.0 using the zfsinstall utility available at http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ and so my tank zpool is currently using version 13, whereas my other non-boot

Re: Upgrading Boot Loader

2010-08-02 Thread Tim Gustafson
Nope. Read http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org/msg103917.html You need the dd sequence. And you need to do that on exported pool. So, just to be clear, I need to boot off a USB key (which will then allow me to write to ad8 and ad10, my two boot zpool devices), and then:

Re: Upgrading Boot Loader

2010-08-02 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
02.08.2010 22:11, Tim Gustafson wrote: Nope. Read http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org/msg103917.html You need the dd sequence. And you need to do that on exported pool. So, just to be clear, I need to boot off a USB key (which will then allow me to write to ad8 and ad10, my

Re: Upgrading Boot Loader

2010-08-02 Thread Tim Gustafson
to partition the drives: ad8 and ad10 are partitioned using gpart. I'm attaching the output of gpart list to this e-mail. Is there an easier/better way to upgrade the boot loader with gpart partitions? Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz t...@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354Geom name

Re: Upgrading Boot Loader

2010-08-02 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
kilobytes of disk space. I too am using gpart to partition the drives: ad8 and ad10 are partitioned using gpart. I'm attaching the output of gpart list to this e-mail. Is there an easier/better way to upgrade the boot loader with gpart partitions? Then you have no need in zfsboot, you shoud use

Re: Upgrading Boot Loader

2010-08-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
kilobytes of disk space. I too am using gpart to partition the drives: ad8 and ad10 are partitioned using gpart. I'm attaching the output of gpart list to this e-mail. Is there an easier/better way to upgrade the boot loader with gpart partitions? Step 5 from: http://wiki.freebsd.org

Re: Upgrading Boot Loader

2010-08-02 Thread Tim Gustafson
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad8 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad10 When I run this, I get: r...@foo: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad10 ad10 has bootcode Does that mean it was successful, or that no change was made?

Re: Upgrading Boot Loader

2010-08-02 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
02.08.2010 23:53, Tim Gustafson wrote: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad8 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad10 When I run this, I get: r...@foo: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad10 ad10 has bootcode Does that mean it was

Re: Upgrading Boot Loader

2010-08-02 Thread Tim Gustafson
Does that mean it was successful, or that no change was made? Successful. Awesome, thanks! Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz t...@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Upgrading Boot Loader

2010-08-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Volodymyr == Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com writes: Volodymyr 02.08.2010 23:53, Tim Gustafson wrote: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad8 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad10 When I run this, I get: r...@foo: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr

boot loader too large

2010-04-17 Thread Jason C. Wells
. The root device is ad4p2 with binaries and kernel already installed. When I boot I get an error message: boot loader too large I am not sure what stage of the boot process this occurs in. I do not see any of the familiar boot0 or boot1 prompts. I tried installing mbr, boot0, and boot1

RE: boot loader too large

2010-04-17 Thread Dan Naumov
Hey A 64kb freebsd-boot partition should be more than plenty for what you want to do, see my setup at: http://freebsd.pastebin.com/QS6MnNKc If you want to setup a ZFS boot/root configuration and make your life easier, just use the installation script provided by the guy who wrote ManageBE:

Re: boot loader too large

2010-04-17 Thread Jason C. Wells
partition in ad4p4 without manual intervention. Is there a GPT equivalent to boot0cfg? gptboot currently attempts to boot: 0:ad(0p2)/boot/kernel/kernel I'd like it to boot: 0:ad(4p4)/boot/loader How does the boot process discover the partition in which the gptboot loader resides

Grub demage my boot loader

2010-03-26 Thread Jindřich Káňa
Hello, I am new in this mailing list and my english is very poor :) I have installed FBSD 8.0 on my first SATA disk. I downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 CD and boot into the Ubuntu installation. After booting proces a choose 4GB USB memory for installation as hard drive. There is option: delete and

Re: Grub demage my boot loader

2010-03-26 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Jindřich Káňa jindr...@kana.at wrote: Hello, I am new in this mailing list and my english is very poor :) I have installed FBSD 8.0 on my first SATA disk. I downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 CD and boot into the Ubuntu installation. After booting proces a choose 4GB USB

RE: Grub demage my boot loader

2010-03-26 Thread Gary Gatten
, 2010 4:46 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grub demage my boot loader On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Jindřich Káňa jindr...@kana.at wrote: Hello, I am new in this mailing list and my english is very poor :) I have installed FBSD 8.0 on my first SATA disk. I downloaded Ubuntu

boot loader I/O through ethernet

2009-03-14 Thread Cipta H
Hello, First of all, I'm new around here so please forgive me if I asked a stupid question. More and more systems are made without serial ports these days. This means I can't access the loader prompt on FreeBSD without a monitor and keyboard, which is an annoyance. So my question is, is there a

Re: boot loader I/O through ethernet

2009-03-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, More and more systems are made without serial ports these days. This means I can't access the loader prompt on FreeBSD without a monitor and keyboard, which is an annoyance. So my question is, is there a way to channel input and output of the loader through LAN / Ethernet by software

Re: boot loader I/O through ethernet

2009-03-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
question. More and more systems are made without serial ports these days. This means I can't access the loader prompt on FreeBSD without a monitor and keyboard, which is an annoyance. So my question is, is there a way to channel input and output of the loader through LAN / Ethernet by software

Re: How to change default boot loader location

2009-02-07 Thread Victor M. Blood
on drive' Used bootpart I have create 'freebsd.bin' and try to loadup it into ntldr, boot.ini eg: bootpart 2 LBA freebsd.bin Freebsd loader shows two error messages about 'Invalid Partition' and prompt me boot: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel Then I 'by hands' try: 0:ad(4,3,a)/boot/loader, Free

How to change default boot loader location

2009-02-05 Thread Victor M. Blood
: bootpart 2 LBA freebsd.bin Freebsd loader shows two error messages about 'Invalid Partition' and prompt me boot: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel Then I 'by hands' try: 0:ad(4,3,a)/boot/loader, Free BSD has normal start loader, menus, kernel, etc... works! I try write this line in /boot.config

no boot/loader

2008-08-08 Thread acmeinc
No /boot/loader no /boot/kernel/kernel I isntalled FreeBSD 7.0 with the defaults for partiioning. I am using one hard drive in which I followed with the ASQ (auto, tag for boot, quit) command. I choose the standard boot loader option. I installed through the master freebsd site via ethernet

Re: no boot/loader

2008-08-08 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:42 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: No /boot/loader no /boot/kernel/kernel I isntalled FreeBSD 7.0 with the defaults for partiioning. I am using one hard drive in which I followed with the ASQ (auto, tag for boot, quit) command. I choose the standard boot loader option. I installed through

Re: no boot/loader

2008-08-08 Thread Derek Ragona
the boot area being written. -Derek Derek Ragona wrote: At 04:42 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: No /boot/loader no /boot/kernel/kernel I isntalled FreeBSD 7.0 with the defaults for partiioning. I am using one hard drive in which I followed with the ASQ (auto, tag for boot, quit

Re: no boot/loader

2008-08-08 Thread Polytropon
to be happing after you could solve the problem in question. This is what yould happen, summarized: 1. BIOS runs loader found in MBR (standard loader) 2. Standard loader runs /boot/loader 3. /boot/loader runs /boot/kernel/kernel (GENERIC) 4. Kernel initializes system, runs rc script 5. rc script controls

Re: Restoring freeBSD boot loader

2008-06-14 Thread Lionel
Look in the tools folder on the FreeBSD install CD for booteasy. Booteasy will run from Windows and install the boot loader. It will also save the old MBR to a floppy, hard disk, or USB disk for safety. -Derek Ah, thank you and all those who answered me, really helpful. I'm going to try

Restoring freeBSD boot loader

2008-06-13 Thread Lionel
I've had to install Windows XP in dual boot on a freeBSD box, and of course it erased the bootloader to replace it with its own. Now I'd like to restore the freeBSD bootloader. I've tried booting with the install CD and I use the fdisk utility to mark the fbsd partition bootable and then

Re: Restoring freeBSD boot loader

2008-06-13 Thread Sahil Tandon
Lionel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had to install Windows XP in dual boot on a freeBSD box, and of course it erased the bootloader to replace it with its own. Now I'd like to restore the freeBSD bootloader. I've tried booting with the install CD and I use the fdisk utility to mark

Re: Restoring freeBSD boot loader

2008-06-13 Thread Derek Ragona
windows because I'll probably remove it soon, but I think lilo just places itself in the boot segment so it should be fine. Any help would be most welcome... -- Lionel Look in the tools folder on the FreeBSD install CD for booteasy. Booteasy will run from Windows and install the boot loader

Re: Restoring freeBSD boot loader

2008-06-13 Thread Fraser Tweedale
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 06:46:13PM -0400, Sahil Tandon wrote: Lionel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had to install Windows XP in dual boot on a freeBSD box, and of course it erased the bootloader to replace it with its own. Now I'd like to restore the freeBSD bootloader. I've

can't 'kldload zfs' if loaded not via /boot/loader

2008-03-13 Thread Ivan Dolgorukov
Hi! I'm trying to boot up from my usb stick using grub 1.96 (/boot/loader gave me the 'BTX halted bug') and I've managed to succeed in that. After booting up in the command promth I've issued 'kldload zfs'. The command gives me 'link_elf: symbol hardlink_check_uid undefined', after

Rebuilding boot loader under 7.0-STABLE

2008-03-07 Thread Gianni
Hi I've got 7.0-STABLE installed on an embedded Soekris 5501 box and I'm trying to rebuild the boot loader to not use terminal emulation so I can read the boot messages and menu, as per: https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html#t3 # cd /sys/boot # make clean make Gives the following error

Re: boot loader anomaly

2008-01-29 Thread Steven Friedrich
I'm getting an error message zpool_cache...failed! during boot. Ok, I'm a little slow 8o) It had me confused because I hadn't configured any ZFS. I had forgetten about the existence of /boot/defaults/loader.conf. I find it ODD that the default for zpool_cache_load is YES. Anyway, I added

Re: Boot Loader Broken?

2008-01-22 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Schiz0 wrote: Can someone help me either solve the bootloader problem, or just how to get into single user mode? If, instead of the pretty, numbered boot loader menu, you get the old 4.x style 'Hit [Enter] to boot immediately' autoboot prompt, hit any key other than enter, then type 'boot -s

Re: Boot Loader Broken?

2008-01-22 Thread Schiz0
On Jan 21, 2008 10:08 PM, Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/21/08, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 1:38 PM, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Now, I'm even in a bigger hole. My power died this weekend, and I guess the / partition has some errors on it, so it is

Re: Boot Loader Broken?

2008-01-22 Thread Schiz0
On Jan 21, 2008 10:08 PM, Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/21/08, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 1:38 PM, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Now, I'm even in a bigger hole. My power died this weekend, and I guess the / partition has some errors on it, so it is

boot loader anomaly

2008-01-21 Thread Steven Friedrich
I'm getting an error message zpool_cache...failed! during boot. You have to disable beastie to see it... Here's the output that I wrote down: BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Consoles: internal video/kerboard BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS drive D: is disk1 BIOS drive E: is disk2 BIOS

Re: Boot Loader Broken?

2008-01-21 Thread Schiz0
On Jan 9, 2008 1:38 PM, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I recently upgraded from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7.0-PRERELEASE. I had some problem with the ports, but I got that taken care of. Now I'm having another very odd problem. I originally noticed something odd when I tried to shutdown from

Re: Boot Loader Broken?

2008-01-21 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/21/08, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 1:38 PM, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Now, I'm even in a bigger hole. My power died this weekend, and I guess the / partition has some errors on it, so it is being mounted read-only. But I'm unable to get into single user

Re: Boot Loader Broken?

2008-01-11 Thread Schiz0
On 1/10/08, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently upgraded from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7.0-PRERELEASE. I had some problem with the ports, but I got that taken care of. Now I'm having another very odd problem. I originally noticed something odd

Re: Boot Loader Broken?

2008-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently upgraded from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7.0-PRERELEASE. I had some problem with the ports, but I got that taken care of. Now I'm having another very odd problem. I originally noticed something odd when I tried to shutdown from multiuser mode into single

Re: Boot Loader Broken?

2008-01-10 Thread Schiz0
. My /etc/loader.rc: --- \ Loader.rc \ $FreeBSD: src/sys/boot/i386/loader/loader.rc,v 1.4.2.1 2005/10/30 14:37:02 scottl Exp $ \ \ Includes additional commands include /boot/loader.4th \ Reads and processes loader.conf variables start \ Tests for password -- executes

Boot Loader Broken?

2008-01-09 Thread Schiz0
Hey, I recently upgraded from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7.0-PRERELEASE. I had some problem with the ports, but I got that taken care of. Now I'm having another very odd problem. I originally noticed something odd when I tried to shutdown from multiuser mode into single user mode. I ran shutdown now as

Re: amd64 native boot loader?

2007-12-22 Thread Bruce Cran
snowcrash+freebsd wrote: hi, i've FBSD/amd64 62Rp9 installed. kernel world are my own builds from latest cvsup. on boot I see: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader odd. i'd expect a native loader ... checking in, /usr/src/sys/boot ls Makefile alpha/arm/ efi/ forth/

Re: amd64 native boot loader?

2007-12-22 Thread Joshua Isom
. -- Bruce I've thought about this too, but do wonder why the boot loader couldn't go into long mode in one of the loader stages. I don't know if there'd be any significant improvements or drawbacks other than duplication of some code(which I imagine isn't changed often). Somewhat offhand

amd64 native boot loader?

2007-12-21 Thread snowcrash+freebsd
hi, i've FBSD/amd64 62Rp9 installed. kernel world are my own builds from latest cvsup. on boot I see: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader odd. i'd expect a native loader ... checking in, /usr/src/sys/boot ls Makefile alpha/arm/ efi/ forth/ia64/ pc98/

triple boot loader

2007-12-10 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have vista+freebsd (both boot well off btx) and fedora (which doesn't boot at all of the current btx install I have)... I want to keep btx instead of having to reconfigure for grub or some piece of linux (*(*(*... help? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

No /boot/loader

2007-11-21 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi, I installed FreeBSD 7.0-current snapshot [200710] on my laptop. I have two issues, of which second is major: 1. It could not find any X filesets 2. After rebooting, it tells me something like No /boot/loader, and does not boot. I tried to google for #2, but found no solution. I am surely

RE: boot loader

2007-10-26 Thread Thomas Ching
-Original Message- From: Doug Barton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 1:47 PM To: Thomas Ching Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: boot loader FYI, for future reference this question is really more appropriate for [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Thomas Ching wrote

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