Re: Should newfs include -S 4096? was Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-24 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote: One of the complications was getting old metadata off of the drive. After trying a couple of 'dd' invocations: # overwriting the first sector dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0 bs=512 count=1 # also tried overwriting the last sector diskinfo ada0 | cut

Should newfs include -S 4096? was Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-23 Thread freebsd
On 2012-11-20 21:10, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote: On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote: On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 ... Not UFS No ada0 No boot Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2

gpt booting (Was: Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3)

2012-11-21 Thread Arthur Chance
On 11/21/12 05:11, Warren Block wrote: gptboot looks for the first UFS partition. Maybe /boot/boot can be modified to do that also. It's a little more complicated than that Warren. AIUI gptboot first looks (in partition order) for partitions with both the bootme and bootonce attributes set.

Re: gpt booting (Was: Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3)

2012-11-21 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Arthur Chance wrote: On 11/21/12 05:11, Warren Block wrote: gptboot looks for the first UFS partition. Maybe /boot/boot can be modified to do that also. It's a little more complicated than that Warren. AIUI gptboot first looks (in partition order) for partitions with

boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread freebsd
Hello, I recently installed a 9.1-RC2 system using gmirror with MBR, and swap in first bsdlabel. orsbackup# gpart show =63 3907029104 mirror/gm0 MBR (1.8T) 63 63 - free - (31k) 126 3907028979 1 freebsd [active] (1.8T)

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread Gary Aitken
On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: Hello, I recently installed a 9.1-RC2 system using gmirror with MBR, and swap in first bsdlabel. orsbackup# gpart show =63 3907029104 mirror/gm0 MBR (1.8T) 63 63 - free - (31k) 126

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread freebsd
On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote: On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 ... Not UFS No ada0 No boot Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2 I previously used binary update to migrate from 9.0 to 9.1, via: freebsd-update upgrade

Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote: On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote: On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 ... Not UFS No ada0 No boot Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2 I previously used binary update to

nanobsd boot problem

2012-11-07 Thread Jack Mc Lauren
Hi all I have some problems in the second phase of running a device from a nanobsd image.  After copying the image on a flash memory, and after I set the system to boot up from flash memory, I just see a black screen and a blinking cursor ! looks like the boot device ( flash memory ) is not

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-07 Thread krad
On 6 November 2011 02:51, Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: netwait_enable=YES netwait_ip=192.168.1.1 # IP address to ping to verify network is up netwait_if=em0 # interface to use Also there's

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-07 Thread Robison, Dave
On 11/05/2011 14:52, Robert Simmons wrote: Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address? After setting ntpdate_enable=YES in rc.conf, I get the following error on boot: Setting date via ntp. Error : hostname

ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address? After setting ntpdate_enable=YES in rc.conf, I get the following error on boot: Setting date via ntp. Error : hostname nor servname provided, or not known 5 Nov

ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address? After setting ntpdate_enable=YES in rc.conf, I get the following error on boot: Setting date via ntp. Error : hostname nor servname provided, or not known 5 Nov

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Sierchio
Are you running a firewall? Do you have a ppp connection? This happens when there is a dependency that is not expressed in the /etc/rc.d scripts. - M On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Nov 5 11, Robert Simmons wrote: Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address? After setting ntpdate_enable=YES in rc.conf, I get the following error on boot: Setting date via ntp. Error :

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: Are you running a firewall?  Do you have a ppp connection? I'm not running a firewall on the machine in question. I am behind a firewall, if that's what you mean. I don't have a ppp connection. The box is a server that

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: same here. simply add something like the following to your crontab: 0       10      *       *       */2     /etc/rc.d/ntpdate onestart I have something similar in my crontab which is not exactly what I need. I want to

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Michael Sierchio
The keywords in /etc/rc.d/ntpdate have # PROVIDE: ntpdate # REQUIRE: NETWORKING syslogd named # KEYWORD: nojail which means that networking must be up first. The question in your case is why name resolution is failing. See what happens if you pick some public stratum 1 or stratum 2 servers for

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 05/11/2011 22:19, Robert Simmons wrote: On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: same here. simply add something like the following to your crontab: 0 10 * * */2 /etc/rc.d/ntpdate onestart I have something similar in my crontab

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address? After setting ntpdate_enable=YES in rc.conf, I get the following error on boot: Setting date via ntp. Error : hostname

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address? Yes, it is.  FreeBSD 8-STABLE and 9 have

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: crontabs have this handy '@reboot' syntax...  It's all explained in crontab(5). Thanks! However, you would be well advised to run ntpd(8) rather than bodging the clock with ntpdate at intervals.  ntpdate is

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address? Yes,

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 5 Nov 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: I've had this problem with machines using DHCP and the solution was to use SYNCDHCP rather than DHCP in rc.conf. However, this box is using a static IP address.

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: netwait_enable=YES netwait_ip=192.168.1.1 # IP address to ping to verify network is up netwait_if=em0 # interface to use Also there's netwait_timeout, which defaults to 60 in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. I've finally got a

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Carl Johnson
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes: On 05/11/2011 22:19, Robert Simmons wrote: On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: same here. simply add something like the following to your crontab: 0 10 * * */2

boot problem

2011-04-21 Thread Yavuz Maşlak
Hello I have a freebsd7 box. I also have another PC . I removed the disk from freebsd installed machine and fixed it to the another PC. It Works but there is a problem. While opening the server it waits at boot FreeBSD/i386 boot: Default:0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader Boot: If I press enter, the

Re: boot problem

2011-04-21 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Yavuz Maşlak wrote: I have a freebsd7 box. I also have another PC . I removed the disk from freebsd installed machine and fixed it to the another PC. How is it connected? USB? It Works but there is a problem. While opening the server it waits at boot FreeBSD/i386

RE: boot problem

2011-04-21 Thread Yavuz Maşlak
Attached sata Disk. it is not usb Namely, The sata disk is attached to new machine. It is connected by sata cable. On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Yavuz Maşlak wrote: I have a freebsd7 box. I also have another PC . I removed the disk from freebsd installed machine and fixed it to the another

Boot problem after reboot during upgrade from frebsd6.1 to freebsd7.0

2008-03-13 Thread Yavuz Maslak
I followed http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html to upgrade freebsd6.1 to 7.0. I forgot compile kernel for freebsd7.0. and I rebooted the machine. The server didn't give any error message during the upgrade. The server tried to boot at freebsd6.1. and it could not boot the system.

Re: boot problem after custom kernel

2007-08-06 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 03:29:14PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: Alain G. Fabry wrote: First 'unload kernel' followed by 'boot /boot/kernel.GENERIC/kernel', but it mentions that it cannot find the kernel. snip What can I do to boot my GENERIC kernel so I can rebuild from it and my

Re: boot problem after custom kernel

2007-08-05 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Alain G. Fabry wrote: First 'unload kernel' followed by 'boot /boot/kernel.GENERIC/kernel', but it mentions that it cannot find the kernel. try, at loader prompt: unload kernel load /boot/kernel.old/kernel boot --

Re: boot problem after custom kernel

2007-08-05 Thread Paul Fraser
Alain G. Fabry wrote: First 'unload kernel' followed by 'boot /boot/kernel.GENERIC/kernel', but it mentions that it cannot find the kernel. snip What can I do to boot my GENERIC kernel so I can rebuild from it and my system will boot normal again. Hi Alain, Try replacing

Boot problem after GEOM setup

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Following the doc below, I am trying to mirror an existing disk, ad0, which holds the root and /usr partitions (a second disk holds /var). I have an exact same disk in as ad2 in the system and did everything in this document top section through dumping the data and setting up /etc/fstab and

Re: Boot problem after GEOM setup

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 11:39 -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Following the doc below, I am trying to mirror an existing disk, ad0, which holds the root and /usr partitions (a second disk holds /var). I have an exact same disk in as ad2 in the system and did everything in this document top

Re: acpi and boot problem

2006-12-03 Thread leo fante
From a quick look at /boot/beastie.4th, I think that setting acpi_load in your loader.conf will do the job. also it is written in loader.help but I've already tried and it doesn't work. thanks anyway for the advice ___

Re: acpi and boot problem

2006-12-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
leo fante [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I've installed freebsd 6.1 on an old pc on which I've configured several services. Everything worked fine since last week when the motherboard died. I've replaced the mobo and found that now the acpi could work (with the old motherboard the

acpi and boot problem

2006-11-28 Thread leo fante
Hi I've installed freebsd 6.1 on an old pc on which I've configured several services. Everything worked fine since last week when the motherboard died. I've replaced the mobo and found that now the acpi could work (with the old motherboard the installation disabled the acpi at boot since the

FreeBSD 6.2 PRERELEASE boot problem

2006-10-07 Thread Jack Raats
After upgrading the ports suddenly the server does not reboot. I get the menu 'Welcome to FreeBSD'; after pressing 1 (boot FreeBSD default) the system halts with '/boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x43670 data=0x23c0+0x10f0 syms=[0x4+0x7ba+0x4+0xa828] We tried acessing thru live cdrom whilst mounting the

intermittent boot problem

2006-09-27 Thread Marty Landman
I've got a new FBSD 5.3 release install on an old Compaq pII-233 w/ 128M ram. What I get when the boot fails is tx underrun -- using store and forward mode repeating infinitely. Now that a reboot has succeeded here's what dmesg shows for dc0: dc0: 82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX port 0x1400-0x14ff

Re: intermittent boot problem

2006-09-27 Thread Marty Landman
Sorry there's a bit more info available for my problem: $ dmesg | grep dc0 dc0: 82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX port 0x1400-0x14ff mem 0x4090-0x409000ff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci0 miibus0: MII bus on dc0 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:40:3e:9b dc0: if_start running deferred for Giant dc0:

Re: intermittent boot problem

2006-09-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marty Landman wrote: I've got a new FBSD 5.3 release install on an old Compaq pII-233 w/ 128M ram. What I get when the boot fails is tx underrun -- using store and forward mode repeating infinitely. Now that a reboot has succeeded here's what dmesg shows for dc0: dc0: 82c169 PNIC

Boot problem

2006-06-27 Thread Winston
I tried to boot via a serial console, so I modified/added the following config files: --- /boot/loader.conf: boot_multicons=YES boot_serial=YES console=comconsole --- /boot.config # wyt: added -Dh --- Changed

Re: Boot problem

2006-06-27 Thread Steve Kargl
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:49:59AM -0700, Winston wrote: Any hint? Find a live cd and boot it. Mount partition and edit files that you munged. -- Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

FreeBSD Boot Problem on Multiple HDDs

2006-06-11 Thread Sean M.
I just did my first ever bit of hardware hacking--salvaging a 6GB HDD from a useless computer and installing it as a slave--and went and put FreeBSD on it and a 3151MB partition on the master drive, which already had Windows 2000 Professional SP1. Here is how I chopped up the disks: ad0s1: FAT32

Re: FreeBSD Boot Problem on Multiple HDDs

2006-06-11 Thread Derek Ragona
You may need to do an upgrade reinstall. It sounds like the boot block is foobar. If you reinstall the same version using the upgrade option, that should take care of the problem. -Derek At 01:38 AM 6/11/2006, Sean M. wrote: I just did my first ever bit of hardware

Re: Odd boot problem

2005-11-06 Thread Joao Barros
On 11/5/05, Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I needed to add an IDE disk to an already running SCSI booting machine for testing. Recently upgraded to 6.0 :) with the IDE disk connected to the machine, although not mounted. After a make kernel the machine boots fine but only if I

Odd boot problem

2005-11-05 Thread Joao Barros
Hi, I needed to add an IDE disk to an already running SCSI booting machine for testing. Recently upgraded to 6.0 :) with the IDE disk connected to the machine, although not mounted. After a make kernel the machine boots fine but only if I have the IDE disk connected. Booting from the scsi disk I

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1-STABLE boot problem

2005-10-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:50:19AM +0300, Sergey Khenkin wrote: Hi All, I ran into a problem installing FreeBSD 5.2.1-STABLE on an old PC (Am5x86, 133MHz, 40M RAM, 700M HDD). After I finish the install and reboot the PC under FreeBSD it fails to load the kernel. Here's what is on the screen

FreeBSD 5.2.1-STABLE boot problem

2005-10-12 Thread Sergey Khenkin
Hi All, I ran into a problem installing FreeBSD 5.2.1-STABLE on an old PC (Am5x86, 133MHz, 40M RAM, 700M HDD). After I finish the install and reboot the PC under FreeBSD it fails to load the kernel. Here's what is on the screen (manually copied): Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf

FreeBSD 5.2.1-STABLE boot problem

2005-10-12 Thread Sergey Khenkin
Hi All, I ran into a problem installing FreeBSD 5.2.1-STABLE on an old PC (Am5x86, 133MHz, 40M RAM, 700M HDD). After I finish the install and reboot the PC under FreeBSD it fails to load the kernel. Here's what is on the screen (manually copied): Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-22 Thread Erik Norgaard
kevin stovall wrote: I am trying to set up diskless boot with FreeBSD 6.0 BETA2. I am using PXE which is successful and the diskless box finds the kernel fine, but it hangs right before it would normally give the login prompt. It displays the date and then hangs. I am unable to SSH in from

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
kevin stovall wrote: Thanks for responding and sorry it took me so long to respond. I am still having the same problem that I was. / is mounted through nfs. Do you know if the dhclient does the same as you described in 6? Also, I think that they did away with mfs in version 6. you should

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-21 Thread kevin stovall
Yes, / is read-only and /var is rw. Here is my fstab: 192.168.0.200:/home/diskless_ro / nfsro 0 0 192.168.0.200:/home/diskless_rw/var /var nfs rw 0 0 192.168.0.200:/home/diskless_rw/tmp /tmp nfs rw 0 0 192.168.0.200:/usr /usr nfsrw 0 0 proc

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
kevin stovall wrote: Yes, / is read-only and /var is rw. Here is my fstab: 192.168.0.200:/home/diskless_ro / nfsro 0 0 192.168.0.200:/home/diskless_rw/var /var nfs rw 0 0 192.168.0.200:/home/diskless_rw/tmp /tmp nfs rw 0 0 192.168.0.200:/usr /usr nfsrw 0 0 proc

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-21 Thread kevin stovall
I exported everything rw. / -alldirs -maproot=root -network 192.168.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 /home -alldirs -maproot=root -network 192.168.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 Question: what is your /etc/exports? Did you export all rw or /home/diskless_ro ro? Thing is that it's tricky to have both rw and

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
kevin stovall wrote: I exported everything rw. / -alldirs -maproot=root -network 192.168.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 /home -alldirs -maproot=root -network 192.168.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 and what do you see if you run showmount(8) ? Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
kevin stovall wrote: I exported everything rw. / -alldirs -maproot=root -network 192.168.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 /home -alldirs -maproot=root -network 192.168.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 is /usr a separate disklabel? because, then it doesn't appear to be exported. Cheers, Erik -- Ph:

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-21 Thread kevin stovall
# showmount Hosts on localhost: 192.168.0.196 and what do you see if you run showmount(8) ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
kevin stovall wrote: # showmount Hosts on localhost: 192.168.0.196 It's ok if you read the manpage to see what interesting options there are to get some more info. If you want help, then you also need to provide the interesting stuff. Using -e you can see what mounts are actually exported,

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-21 Thread kevin stovall
No, I have two disks, / and /home. is /usr a separate disklabel? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-20 Thread kevin stovall
: iRe: Diskless Boot Problem/ibrDate: iWed, 14 Sep 2005 11:10:37 +0200/ibrgt;kevin stovall wrote:brgt;gt;The root file system seems to mount correctly, but I am not sure brgt;gt;how to tell. The root file system is /home/diskless_ro which is set brgt;gt;up correctly for NFS. I don't have

Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-14 Thread kevin stovall
I am trying to set up diskless boot with FreeBSD 6.0 BETA2. I am using PXE which is successful and the diskless box finds the kernel fine, but it hangs right before it would normally give the login prompt. It displays the date and then hangs. I am unable to SSH in from other machine. It boots

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
kevin stovall wrote: I am trying to set up diskless boot with FreeBSD 6.0 BETA2. I am using PXE which is successful and the diskless box finds the kernel fine, but it hangs right before it would normally give the login prompt. It displays the date and then hangs. I am unable to SSH in from

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-14 Thread kevin stovall
-LEFT: #A0C6E5 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px'font style='FONT-SIZE:11px;FONT-FAMILY:tahoma,sans-serif'hr color=#A0C6E5 size=1 From: iErik Norgaard lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;/ibrTo: ikevin stovall lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt;/ibrCC: ifreebsd-questions@freebsd.org/ibrSubject: iRe: Diskless Boot Problem

Re: Diskless Boot Problem

2005-09-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
kevin stovall wrote: The root file system seems to mount correctly, but I am not sure how to tell. The root file system is /home/diskless_ro which is set up correctly for NFS. I don't have a memory file system set up, so this is likely the problem. You will use either or, not both. A memory

Re: boot problem - how can I access the file system

2005-09-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I made a mistake to my /boot/loader.conf file and now the system hangs after pressing F1 and before the boot options menu. How can I access the file to edit it? I have the install CD, but can't seem to figure out how to get to the file system. Hi Robert, I'd get

Re: boot problem - how can I access the file system

2005-09-03 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 13:31 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: I made a mistake to my /boot/loader.conf file and now the system hangs after pressing F1 and before the boot options menu. How can I access the file to edit it? I have the install CD, but can't seem to figure out how to get to the file

Re: boot problem - how can I access the file system

2005-09-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I made a mistake to my /boot/loader.conf file and now the system hangs after pressing F1 and before the boot options menu. How can I access the file to edit it? I have the install CD, but can't seem to figure out how to get to the file system. When it happened to

boot problem - how can I access the file system

2005-09-03 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I made a mistake to my /boot/loader.conf file and now the system hangs after pressing F1 and before the boot options menu. How can I access the file to edit it? I have the install CD, but can't seem to figure out how to get to the file system. -- Robert

Re: boot problem - how can I access the file system

2005-09-03 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 13:31 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: What resources do you have? Don't have another FreeBSD machine at this location. I have my SuSE 9.2 linux workstation and Windows 2003 server machine. 2] Fixit CD or Fixit floppy. Available via FTP from ftp.freebsd.org. I tried the

Re: boot problem - how can I access the file system

2005-09-03 Thread nawcom
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ and specifically: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm these are all windows programs that take away the frustration of installing linux. however freebsd and any os follows the same concept when it comes to boot disks (.img) - so give

How do I diagnose and fix a boot problem?

2005-09-02 Thread Frederick N. Brier
I had an old FreeBSD 4.8 server and wanted to upgrade it to 5.4. So I backed it up to both DVD and to another 5.4 system. The only change in the hardware was adding a Zonet ZEN3300E gigabit PCI adapter (Realtek RTL8169S-32). It is an old dual 600 P3 with 1GB RAM and a 3Ware 7000-2

Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem RESOLVED

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Slade
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 17:26, Robert Slade wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:21, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:20, Vizion wrote

RE: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem

2005-08-31 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vizion Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:21 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Slade Subject: Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem Did you follow my suggestion and search the HP

RE: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem

2005-08-31 Thread Robert Slade
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 07:01, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vizion Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:21 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Slade Subject: Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot

Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem

2005-08-31 Thread Robert Slade
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:21, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:20, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:22, the author Robert Slade

Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem

2005-08-30 Thread Robert Slade
Hiya, I've been working on this beasty on and off for some time. It's a Quad processor 1 Gbyte of memory and 5 scsi drives using the 2p raid controller setup as 2 raid arrays + 1 spare. The machine works fine with 5.4 release #0 with the supplied generic kernel. The problem(s) I have been

Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem

2005-08-30 Thread Vizion
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:05, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: Hiya, I've been working on this beasty on and off for some time. It's a Quad processor 1 Gbyte of memory and 5 scsi drives using the 2p raid controller

Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem

2005-08-30 Thread Robert Slade
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 20:10, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:05, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: Hiya, I've been working on this beasty on and off for some time. It's a Quad processor 1 Gbyte of memory

Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem

2005-08-30 Thread Robert Slade
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:20, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:22, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 20:10, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:05, the author Robert Slade

Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem

2005-08-30 Thread Vizion
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:20, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:22, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Proliant

Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem

2005-08-30 Thread Vizion
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 16:21, the author Vizion contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Is this any use: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/23/cpqraid.html

boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Sean
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

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
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

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Sean
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

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
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:

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. You might get better help if you include details like what you installed. Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the following example from the handbook FreeBSD/i386 BOOT

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Sean
Glenn Dawson wrote: 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

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. Where it's probably refers to boot code, not to the MBR, which doesn't look for anything except

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:40 PM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: Glenn Dawson wrote: 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

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 02:47 PM 8/27/2005, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. Where it's probably refers to boot code, not

Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?)

2005-08-27 Thread Sean
Hi guys, Just wanted to say thanks for all the helpful suggestions. Played with things and got into the geometry idea as the possible cause. Did some more work, adjusting bios and geometry settings around the disk and just a few minutes ago after yet another go at installing the laptop just

boot problem

2005-07-28 Thread asd asd
Hello! I have problem with booting FreeBSD 5.4 on my laptop Toshiba Satellite 2410-304: sometimes it boots without problem but sometimes it stops at line uhci0: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A port 0xefe0-0xefff irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0. Previous line is initialization of the

Re: boot problem

2005-07-28 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 7/28/05, asd asd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have problem with booting FreeBSD 5.4 on my laptop Toshiba Satellite 2410-304: sometimes it boots without problem but sometimes it stops at line uhci0: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A port 0xefe0-0xefff irq 11 at device

Re: Boot Problem

2005-05-07 Thread Koushik Narayanan
Thanks for helping.I couldn't do anything with the fixit disk.Is there some method or tool using which I can copy all files in the ufs partiton to some other partition using DOS,Windows,or Linux(my kernel won't support ufs.) .Something like ltools which allows me to copy,delete files in ext2

Re: Boot Problem

2005-05-07 Thread Koushik Narayanan
Sorry.My linux kernel does support ufs.Anyway for working with ufs on linux see http://ufs-linux.sourceforge.net/ Sorry for the trouble. On Sat, 07 May 2005 18:14:50 +0530, Koushik Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thanks for helping.I couldn't do anything with the fixit disk.Is there some

Boot Problem

2005-05-05 Thread Koushik Narayanan
Hello, I have a PC with Windows XP,FreeBSD-5.3 and Linux(Fedora).I use GRUB as my boot manager and I boot into FreeBSD using chainloader. I have XP and FreeBSD on primary partitions.I had a linux primary partion apart from these.I wanted to convert that to UFS2 as my /usr partition (FreeBSD) was

Re: Boot Problem

2005-05-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2005 03:59 schrieb Koushik Narayanan: Hello, I have a PC with Windows XP,FreeBSD-5.3 and Linux(Fedora).I use GRUB as my boot manager and I boot into FreeBSD using chainloader. I have XP and FreeBSD on primary partitions.I had a linux primary partion apart from these.I

Boot problem with freebsd 5.3

2005-03-14 Thread cell
hello , i have problem when i boot with freebsd 5.3 since i have had a power cut .The message of the error is : error 16 Iba 191 No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: error 16 Iba 191 No /kernel I don't know if the hard disk is endommaged but i don't think.How do

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