Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Polina Mnouskina
Hello. I am working for the company, that is using FreeBSD on the server mashins. At the moment we have two problems: First, one of the mashins give no kernael error on the boot. Second, we have lost our root password to the second one. Is there a way to fix any of this two problems

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Andy Greenwood
I don't know what you mean by kernel errors on boot, but you can recover your root password by booting into single user mode and then running passwd. On 5/26/06, Polina Mnouskina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am working for the company, that is using FreeBSD on the server mashins

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Adrian Pavone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Greenwood wrote: I don't know what you mean by kernel errors on boot, but you can recover your root password by booting into single user mode and then running passwd. On 5/26/06, Polina Mnouskina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am

RE: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Sam Speranini
Thank you for the quick response and I will try booting up in single mode for the root password issue. One of our main boxes at boot up comes up with the error message below and goes no further. It seems like the kernel is missing or got corrupted. The box ran fine till yesterday morning when we

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Miguel
Andy Greenwood wrote: I don't know what you mean by kernel errors on boot, but you can recover your root password by booting into single user mode and then running passwd. Hi, i have a similar problem, i forgot my root password and the server its in a remote colocation site, is there a way

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Adrian Pavone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miguel wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: I don't know what you mean by kernel errors on boot, but you can recover your root password by booting into single user mode and then running passwd. Hi, i have a similar problem, i forgot my root

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Atom Powers
On 5/26/06, Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have a similar problem, i forgot my root password and the server its in a remote colocation site, is there a way to recover the encrypted password and crackit some way, i have my normal account (which is in wheel group), i even know that the

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Adrian Pavone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Pavone wrote: Miguel wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: I don't know what you mean by kernel errors on boot, but you can recover your root password by booting into single user mode and then running passwd. Hi, i have a similar problem, i

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
Adrian Pavone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miguel wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: I don't know what you mean by kernel errors on boot, but you can recover your root password by booting into single user mode and then running passwd. Hi, i

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Bill Moran
Sam Speranini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the quick response and I will try booting up in single mode for the root password issue. One of our main boxes at boot up comes up with the error message below and goes no further. It seems like the kernel is missing or got corrupted

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Miguel
Atom Powers wrote: On 5/26/06, Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have a similar problem, i forgot my root password and the server its in a remote colocation site, is there a way to recover the encrypted password and crackit some way, i have my normal account (which is in wheel group), i

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Atom Powers
On 5/26/06, Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Atom Powers wrote: On 5/26/06, Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have a similar problem, i forgot my root password and the server its in a remote colocation site, is there a way to recover the encrypted password and crackit some way, i have

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Adrian Pavone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miguel wrote: Atom Powers wrote: On 5/26/06, Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have a similar problem, i forgot my root password and the server its in a remote colocation site, is there a way to recover the encrypted password and crackit

Re: Problems booting operating system and with root password

2006-05-26 Thread Adrian Pavone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Atom Powers wrote: On 5/26/06, Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Atom Powers wrote: On 5/26/06, Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have a similar problem, i forgot my root password and the server its in a remote colocation site, is there a

booting from diskette

2006-05-11 Thread . VWV .
Greetings to all from Europe. I would like to know, the data necessary to make a loader diskette similar to the one used for booting FreeBSD, useful to boot with the same loader the Windows system. In other words, I would like to know what kind of operation does the FreeBSD loader on the MBR

Problem booting

2006-04-21 Thread db
Hi all I know that this is regarding pfSense (1.0 beta3), but since it is running with a FreeBSD 6.1 RC1 kernel, I will try asking for help here. I've installed pfSense on the harddrive (tried this with a SATA disk and a normal disk), but when I boot I get a lot of junk. I can get: FreeBSD/i386

Re: booting problems

2006-04-20 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:46:24 -, boy red [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have so far installed freeBSD OS and set up the accounts but im having some problems. it just takes me 2 a black DOS type screen and i dont know how 2 get in. by getting in i mean that it doesnt take me to the place where

booting problems

2006-04-19 Thread boy red
i have so far installed freeBSD OS and set up the accounts but im having some problems. it just takes me 2 a black DOS type screen and i dont know how 2 get in. by getting in i mean that it doesnt take me to the place where i actually start using the computer. please help.

Re: booting problems

2006-04-19 Thread Victor Lundwall
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] How far do you get? Can you login? Do you get a prompt? Are you just missing a GUI? Dose it hang i the booting process? Write as verbose as you can 'cause I'm not getting how far you get

Re: booting problems

2006-04-19 Thread David J Brooks
using the computer. please help. It sounds like everything has gone well so far, and that you are booting into a shell (command line interface). You ARE 'in' at this point. Where you go from there depends on how you intend to use the computer. You'll probably want to read the Handbook for further

Re: booting problems

2006-04-19 Thread pete wright
On 4/19/06, boy red [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have so far installed freeBSD OS and set up the accounts but im having some problems. it just takes me 2 a black DOS type screen and i dont know how 2 get in. by getting in i mean that it doesnt take me to the place where i actually start using

Re: boot0: is booting from non-BIOS-recognized disk possible?

2006-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Amanda Babcock Furrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read the boot0cfg, disklabel (I have FreeBSD 4.9), and fdisk manpages trying to figure out if boot0 can solve my problem. I did not find the answer there, or in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/disks.html or the freebsd-questions

Booting into an installed software raid system

2006-04-18 Thread valentin_nils
Hello FreeBSD users, I am happilly installing FreeBSD systems (remotely), however there is one thing which I would like to get solved, hopefully the one or the other can help me out. Anyway here the story goes: I have setup a sample FreeBSD system (Software Raid 1) on the devices /dev/ad2 and

boot0: is booting from non-BIOS-recognized disk possible?

2006-04-16 Thread Amanda Babcock Furrow
I have read the boot0cfg, disklabel (I have FreeBSD 4.9), and fdisk manpages trying to figure out if boot0 can solve my problem. I did not find the answer there, or in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/disks.html or the freebsd-questions archives. I would like to be able to boot from my Seagate

Panic booting from 6.1-BETA4-amd64-disc1

2006-04-07 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
: sym: VTOBUS FAILED Booting with ACPI disabled or safe mode did not help. Googling and searching the ML did not show any hints. Any ideas? -- Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax

Re: Panic booting from 6.1-BETA4-amd64-disc1

2006-04-07 Thread Mark Kane
devices to settle panic: sym: VTOBUS FAILED Booting with ACPI disabled or safe mode did not help. Googling and searching the ML did not show any hints. Any ideas? It may be due to this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/89550 I tried to install a SCSI card that uses the sym

Re: cdrom not found after booting was ok-ver 6.0

2006-04-05 Thread Igor Robul
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:02:24PM +0800, uid0 wrote: IBM Netfinity 5000 with 2 SCSI HDs, SCSI Tape Drive and ATAPI CDrom. If your CD-ROM is ATA slave, then try changing it to ATA master. If it is master, then try slave. I had same looking problem with much cheaper hardware (MSI motherboard

cdrom not found after booting was ok-ver 6.0

2006-04-04 Thread uid0
IBM Netfinity 5000 with 2 SCSI HDs, SCSI Tape Drive and ATAPI CDrom. was able to boot from the cdrom, but was not able to install as sysinstall says cdrom not found. Any idea what I should be looking for? Thanks in advance. dzul ___

Re: Booting Issues - ACPI and HD

2006-04-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:12:49 -0600 Ryan Winograd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I have been successful booting Knoppix-STD (linux liveCD), but did not have time (unfortunately) to try mounting the drive. I'll try that when I get a chance. I say this because I'm not sure if the drive is broken

Booting Issues - ACPI and HD

2006-03-29 Thread Ryan Winograd
. Here it is: The server was shutdown somehow. I'm not yet sure how, but I don't think anyone ran a shutdown command. But it was shutdown, and when it tried to boot back up, it freaked out. More specifically, it had issues with ACPI and mounting the root partition. When booting with ACPI

Re: LOR when booting CURRENT (ip_divert.c, PFil hook read/write mutex)

2006-03-23 Thread Robert Huff
Bjoern A. Zeeb writes: When booting recent current I get LOR: lock order reversal: 1st 0xc23d5090 inp (divinp) @ sys/netinet/ip_divert.c:327 2nd 0xc07f21d8 PFil hook read/write mutex (PFil hook read/write mutex) @ sys/net/pfil.c:73 added this LOR with # 181 to 'the LOR

config.boot: -Dh and booting to single user mode

2006-01-17 Thread Jev
Hi All, I have a server that has console redirection on, and in /boot.config we have '-Dh'. But now for the life of me I cannot boot into single user mode with a physically connected keyboard and monitor. I get to the boot: prompt. From here '-s' makes it boot to multiuser. Any ideas? I

Re: System hangs for 30 minutes before booting normally into freebsd 6.0

2006-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
... The problem is the last 8 lines above. It is I believe scanning some ports and is taking such a long time. After this the normal booting is quite fast. Is there any way I can disable this process of scanning that is taking place? After installing freebsd, each time I boot

Re: System hangs for 30 minutes before booting normally into freebsd 6.0

2006-01-16 Thread Dick Davies
Also, try toggling 'pnp os installed' in the bios. On 16 Jan 2006 09:22:55 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ravi Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 203 Then try disabling ACPI; I wouldn't be surprised if your system had no support for it

System hangs for 30 minutes before booting normally into freebsd 6.0

2006-01-13 Thread Ravi Kumar
scanning some ports and is taking such a long time. After this the normal booting is quite fast. Is there any way I can disable this process of scanning that is taking place? After installing freebsd, each time I boot into it, it hangs for 30 minutes at the code snippet above. My uname -a command gave

Re: booting off 6.0 cdrom for Install

2005-12-30 Thread Jud
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:20:15 -0600, Daniel Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have created a FreeBSD_Install cdrom from the 6.0-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso download. When I boot from the cd I reach a 6-option Boot menu but do not get to the Install menu described in 2.3.1 of the Handbook.

booting off 6.0 cdrom for Install

2005-12-29 Thread Daniel Goldberg
Dear FreeBSD forum, Please forgive this question if it seems so elementary. I am a newbie and have googled the matter, searched the FreeBSD.org mailing list archives and read the Handbook and still am in the dark. ISSUE: Trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 from cdrom on my PIII laptop and not

diskless booting and t134

2005-12-12 Thread Daniel Feenberg
I am trying to do diskless booting, and find it requires much esoteric knowledge. Right now I am trying to make the /conf/${class}/ function provided in FreeBSD 6.0 work. It is briefly documented in the diskless manpage, but with no examples. I have had success with /conf/${ip

Re: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40

2005-12-07 Thread Gestur A. Grjetarsson
PROTECTED]'; 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: FW: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40 hi I have an update to my problem with booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade H40 I set the execution throttle to 256 from 255 and set Hard id to 5 from 125 by doing this, I get the ISP

Re: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
12:18 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: FW: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40 hi I have an update to my problem with booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade H40 I set the execution throttle to 256 from 255 and set Hard id to 5 from 125 by doing

problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40

2005-12-06 Thread Gestur A. Grjetarsson
Hi I have this new IBM Blade Center, which I would like to run FreeBSD on with boot from SAN, when trying to boot I get problems and can't see any disks from the SAN. the configuration I have is a IBM Blade Center H40 DS400 diskbox with dual controller but only single connection Qlogic 2312

FW: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40

2005-12-06 Thread Gestur A. Grjetarsson
hi I have an update to my problem with booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade H40 I set the execution throttle to 256 from 255 and set Hard id to 5 from 125 by doing this, I get the ISP driver working and no delay when the driver boots = but when the system comes into sysinstall menu, I get

problem booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade

2005-12-01 Thread Gestur A. Grjetarsson
Hi I'm having a problem installing freebsd on an ibm blade the problem I face is that during boot, it always stops in OK prompt with the message can't load 'kernel' CD Loder 1.2 Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found Relocating the loader and the BTX

Re: problem booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade

2005-12-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote: Hi I'm having a problem installing freebsd on an ibm blade the problem I face is that during boot, it always stops in OK prompt with the message can't load 'kernel' [...] can anyone point me out... it seems that when I try type in load /boot/kernel/kernel I

Wrong system time when booting off cd9660

2005-11-17 Thread Dmitry Pryanishnikov
Hello! I've made a custom bootable CDROM based on 6.0-RELEASE using the following command line (shamelessly stolen from /usr/src/release/i386/mkisoimages.sh): mkisofs -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot -r -J -o cd.iso cd I've made the following tweaks in system's rc.conf: root_rw_mount=NO ;

Booting up

2005-11-11 Thread Alexander Drummond
Booteasy boots up, but all I see is the F1 Dos, F2 FreeBSD, Default F1. I strike F2 multiple times, but FreeBSD does not boot up, and windows proceeds to boot. I still need XP Pro to be default, but I need FreeBSD to boot up properly. ___

booting original kernel

2005-10-09 Thread Sudheer Gupta
Hi I am using 4.1 BSD. Made few changes to the kernel and compiled it. When trying to reboot using the modified kernel, it throwed some page faults. So, i booted using the older config namely kernel.old. I again made few changes and recompiled the kernel with a new config. Now, trying to boot the

RE: booting original kernel

2005-10-09 Thread Siriphan Brigder
-questions@freebsd.org Subject: booting original kernel Hi I am using 4.1 BSD. Made few changes to the kernel and compiled it. When trying to reboot using the modified kernel, it throwed some page faults. So, i booted using the older config namely kernel.old. I again made few changes and recompiled

Re: booting original kernel

2005-10-09 Thread Micah
2005 22:51 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: booting original kernel Hi I am using 4.1 BSD. Made few changes to the kernel and compiled it. When trying to reboot using the modified kernel, it throwed some page faults. So, i booted using the older config namely kernel.old. I again made few

Re: booting original kernel

2005-10-09 Thread Mark Cullen
Sent: 09 October 2005 22:51 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: booting original kernel Hi I am using 4.1 BSD. Made few changes to the kernel and compiled it. When trying to reboot using the modified kernel, it throwed some page faults. So, i booted using the older config namely

Re: booting original kernel

2005-10-09 Thread Micah
] Behalf Of Sudheer Gupta Sent: 09 October 2005 22:51 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: booting original kernel Hi I am using 4.1 BSD. Made few changes to the kernel and compiled it. When trying to reboot using the modified kernel, it throwed some page faults. So, i booted using the older

Re: How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-26 Thread jonas
I suppose one GigaByte should be enough for the base system of 5.4, isn't it? Definitely. The full base system (as I mentioned above) takes about 170 MB of disk space on i386 installations. hi! i would just like to add that it's a good idea to put rapidly changing

How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-25 Thread Rob
Hi, I have a USB memory stick of one GigaByte. I learned that on some PCs, the BIOS allows booting from USB memory-stick. Is this possible with FreeBSD? If yes, then how do I install FreeBSD on such a USB memory stick, so that it becomes a 'bootable USB'? Thanks, Rob

Re: How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-25 22:06, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a USB memory stick of one GigaByte. I learned that on some PCs, the BIOS allows booting from USB memory-stick. Is this possible with FreeBSD? Yes. If yes, then how do I install FreeBSD on such a USB memory stick, so that it becomes

Re: How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-25 Thread Rob
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-09-25 22:06, Rob wrote: I have a USB memory stick of one GigaByte. I learned that on some PCs, the BIOS allows booting from USB memory-stick. Is this possible with FreeBSD? Yes. Great! If yes, then how do I install FreeBSD on such a USB memory stick

Re: How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-25 22:32, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: By installing a FreeBSD base system on it (approx. 170 MB) and a boot loader, and setting your BIOS to boot from USB legacy device. Hmmm, how do I do that? After a system and kernel build, is it then something like

FreeBSD not booting after RAID array rebuild

2005-09-18 Thread Bob Ababurko
Hello- I am working on getting a box running with a NetRAID 3 (D4943) card. I have had a few issues so far, so I am hoping that I can work through this one as well. Ok, the setup is this, I have the card(D4943), Biostar M7VIG 400 mobo, (4) WD 9.15GB 10k U2W LVD SCSI drives, three of which

booting off NetRAID card

2005-09-16 Thread Bob Ababurko
Hello- I am setting up a machine with a 3 channel NetRAID D4943 card and a Biostar M7VIG 400. I have the card set up one one channel with four WD 9.15GB 10k U2 LVD SCSI drives in raid 5 and have been able to install the OS. The drive capacity is correctly shown as is the amr

Raid / Dual booting / Really need help.

2005-09-11 Thread jon.why
hi -- my hardware configuration: Asus K8S-MX AIO Athlon 64 Motherboard SEMPRON 2600 1 Gig DDR MEMORY SEAGATE 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB MAXTOR 100GB 7200 RPM 8MB --- i want to: -partition the Maxtor into 80G and a 20G partitions. -create a Raid 0

Re: Raid / Dual booting / Really need help.

2005-09-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 07:26 PM 9/11/2005, jon.why wrote: hi -- my hardware configuration: Asus K8S-MX AIO Athlon 64 Motherboard SEMPRON 2600 1 Gig DDR MEMORY SEAGATE 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB MAXTOR 100GB 7200 RPM 8MB --- i want to: -partition the Maxtor into 80G

Re: Booting FreeBSD over network or serial links?

2005-08-25 Thread iv gan
If your don't have pxe on your motherboard try the Etherboot. www.etherboot.org greets On 8/25/05, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:54 PM 8/24/2005, Sarath Kamisetty wrote: Hi, I have two PCs, one with linux installed and another one is a old PC. I would like use my linux pc to

RE: Booting FreeBSD over network or serial links?

2005-08-25 Thread Gayn Winters
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of iv gan Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:49 AM To: Glenn Dawson Cc: Sarath Kamisetty; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD over network or serial links? If your don't have

Booting FreeBSD over network or serial links?

2005-08-24 Thread Sarath Kamisetty
Hi, I have two PCs, one with linux installed and another one is a old PC. I would like use my linux pc to make modifications to freebsd code base and then test it on my old PC. After compiling freebsd image on my linux pc, how do I boot this image on my old PC ? Is there a cost effective way of

Re: Booting FreeBSD over network or serial links?

2005-08-24 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:54 PM 8/24/2005, Sarath Kamisetty wrote: Hi, I have two PCs, one with linux installed and another one is a old PC. I would like use my linux pc to make modifications to freebsd code base and then test it on my old PC. After compiling freebsd image on my linux pc, how do I boot this image

Raid / Dual booting / Really need help.

2005-08-16 Thread Eric Murphy
started again with my Silicon 1334 Raid controller. Again I had no success and FreeBSD did NOT detect my controller. So I had the same resalts. (Not UFS, no /kernel) So this time, as you could guess I tryed the Nvidia controller. This time however, upon booting the install I noticed

Help required for pxe-booting linux from a freebsd server

2005-08-08 Thread manish jain
Hi, I have a freebsd 5.4 server with tftpd, nfsd and dhcpd support. I want to initiate pxe installation of CentOS Linux on some of the machines on my network from my freebsd box. I have the CentOS's pxe-kernel and pxe-initrd files. I have also compiled freebsd's pxeboot file from the sources and

Re: Problems with booting MBR

2005-08-05 Thread Stewart Morgan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Vittorio De Martino wrote: | # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0 | fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad0: No such file or directory | | and with | | # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad1 | fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/ad1: No such file or directory I

Re: Problems with booting MBR

2005-08-01 Thread vdm . fbsd
Dear Glenn, even though a bit late here you are the info you suggested to check (still absolutely obscure to me!!): Yes, the / directory for booting is /dev/ad1s2a as in the fstab file. From dmesg: ad0: 9541MB WDC WD100BA/16.13M16 [19386/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ad1: 9541MB WDC WD200EB

Re: Problems with booting MBR

2005-08-01 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From dmesg: ad0: 9541MB WDC WD100BA/16.13M16 [19386/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 I think you just said that vicbsd root# fdisk /dev/ad0 vicbsd root# bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1 work OK, but that your problem (from a prior msg) is: # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0 fdisk:

Re: Problems with booting MBR

2005-07-29 Thread Vittorio De Martino
) to be a postgrresql server too. Linux lilo was the boot loader, booting linux by default and freebsd. Now, convinced of the high quality of the latter I eliminated linux from the first disk unfortunately without modifying lilo, and reshuffled the FreeBSD filesystem as in my latest /etc/fstab using also

Problems with booting MBR

2005-07-28 Thread vdm . fbsd
In the first disk ad0 (master) of a computer at office I had installed linux to be used as a postgresql server. Later I installed FreeBSD 5.4 (just to have a go at it) on a partition of the second disk ad1 (slave) to be a postgrresql server too. Linux lilo was the boot loader, booting linux

Re: Problems with booting MBR

2005-07-28 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
ufs rw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1d /varufs rw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1e /tmpufs rw 0 0 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Now, even though I read the booting

Re: Problems with booting MBR

2005-07-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gary W. Swearingen wrote: If you're sticking to FreeBSD's boot0 MBR, you'll have to put one on each disk. I don't know if boot0 can remember F5 as the default choice for auto-booting or not. But one way or another the first disk's boot0 needs to use F5 to start the second disk's MBR/boot0

Re: trouble booting 5.4 installation media (repost)

2005-07-14 Thread Ito Kazumitsu
Hi, On Fri May 27 02:27:35 PDT 2005, dave dmehler26 at woh.rr.com wrote: Didn't get a response so i'm going to try this again. I'm trying to do a fresh install of 5.4 on a test machine, which previously ran 5.3 just fine. I'm doing the install via a serial terminal as this box is headless

RE: ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 with FreeBSD 5.4 (problems booting - SATA hard disk not recognised) -

2005-06-30 Thread Alan Jay
timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 with FreeBSD 5.4 (problems booting - SATA hard disk not recognised) - Hi, I just got a new Tyan S5350 using twin Xeon processors I am told this is now a very standard motherboard. Unfortunately when I try to boot FreeBSD 5.4 Release I get the following

Booting FreeBSD 5.3 CDROM

2005-06-28 Thread Gerald S Stoller
I've gotten 3 copies of FreeBSD 5.3 (I don't know if they are identical, and I'm not really interested). When booting each of them I get essentially the same messages, which I will list here: Verifying DMI Pool Data . Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: CD Loader 1.2 Building the boot

RE: Booting FreeBSD 5.3 CDROM

2005-06-28 Thread fbsd_user
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerald S Stoller Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 4:40 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Booting FreeBSD 5.3 CDROM I've gotten 3 copies of FreeBSD 5.3 (I don't know if they are identical, and I'm not really interested). When booting each

Re: Booting FreeBSD 5.3 CDROM

2005-06-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
Also, before you burn the new 5.4-RELEASE disc1 and disc2 iso images to CDs check the md5 checksum to make sure the iso images are not corrupted. If they not corrupted then burn them to CDs but do so at a slow burn rate such as 8x. On a *nix machine go to the place you saved the iso images to and

Booting v5.2.1 (Ver 2)

2005-06-27 Thread je killen
at which it stops (where the cursor is in at the bottom of the screen). Can anybody view the jpeg and be able to tell me what the problem might be? (I know of no way to retrieve a text file of this because the system doesn't finish booting so there's no log entries to fetch). There is another

RE: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
, remounted the / filesystem rw, ee the /etc/fstab and changed all the mountpoints to ar1, rebooted, and all is well! I now have 2 RAID1 configs on the same box, and am successfully booting off of the promise raid properly before the motherboard disks!! Thanks to all who provided feedback! I hope

RE: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
You might use loader(8) to set the root device (rootdev variable) explicitly to ar1s1a. Then you should also update fstab to reflect the numbering change. I don't know of any way to change the ata numbering scheme. Mainboard controllers always seem to be probed (and numbered) first. I

Re: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-18 Thread Christian Hiris
On Saturday 18 June 2005 16:51:16, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hence, the aftermath on a properly booted system: pearl# atacontrol status 1 ar1: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: READY pearl# atacontrol status 0 ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad2 ad0 status: READY pearl# df -h FilesystemSize

Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hey all, I've been running my 4.11 box on a Promise RAID one card with no difficulty. Today I added 2 new disks to the regular IDE chain, and used atacontrol to create a second RAID1 configuration for those 2 new disks. After I created with atacontrol, it successfully told me an 'ar1' had been

Re: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-17 Thread Ken Ebling
On Jun 17, 2005, at 2:36 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hey all, I've been running my 4.11 box on a Promise RAID one card with no difficulty. Today I added 2 new disks to the regular IDE chain, and used atacontrol to create a second RAID1 configuration for those 2 new disks. After I created

RE: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Please clarify. You said you added two new disks to the 'regular ide chain' and then created another RAID1 config for those disks. Are the new drives connected to the Promise RAID controller, or the motherboard's IDE controllers? The original RAID, 2 ide drives connected to the

Re: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-17 Thread Titus von Boxberg
Here is what I did, and the subsequent effect: (Remember, ad4 and ad6 (promise drives) make up the bootable ar0): # after 2 brand new drives installed: - atacontrol create RAID1 ad0 ad2 ...at which point it said it was successful, and designated the new RAID config as ad1. After reboot, the

ATA_Identify timeout ERROR - using Tyan S5350 with FreeBSD 5.4 (problems booting - SATA hard disk not recognised) -

2005-06-14 Thread Alan Jay
Hi, I just got a new Tyan S5350 using twin Xeon processors I am told this is now a very standard motherboard. Unfortunately when I try to boot FreeBSD 5.4 Release I get the following errors on the IDE/ATA/SATA connection. The errors I get during boot up are as follows: The hard disk is not

Re: Question about booting with the NT booter.

2005-06-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-06-06 01:19, Artur Soares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am one afraid guy with this on his machine: Disk 1 (master): 40GB - Windows XP (NTFS) on the first 10GB, FAT32 for storage to the rest. Disk 2 (slave): 80GB - FreeBSD 5.4 on the first 50 GB, FAT32 for storage to the rest.

booting an logical partition

2005-05-31 Thread FreeBSD MailingLists
is the FreeBSD boot manager capable of booting a logical partition? I have am setting up a multi-boot system and it looks like I will have to put linux on a logical partition. will boot0 recoginze the logical partition as bootable? TIA, Tomoki Taniguchi

trouble booting 5.4 installation media (repost)

2005-05-27 Thread dave
Hello, Didn't get a response so i'm going to try this again. I'm trying to do a fresh install of 5.4 on a test machine, which previously ran 5.3 just fine. I'm doing the install via a serial terminal as this box is headless and off of an nfs server which i've also prepared identically to 5.3.

Proper dual booting

2005-05-27 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hello. Here is what I see when I turn on my computer: F1 FreeBSD F5 Disk2 This doesn't look very good. How do I make it like this: F1 FreeBSD F2 Windows XP I heard I had to rewrite code. But that's pathetic! Plus, I'm kinda dumb. -- Fafa Hafiz Krantz Research Designer @

Re: Proper dual booting

2005-05-27 Thread FreeBsdBeni
On Friday 27 May 2005 13:44, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: Hello. Here is what I see when I turn on my computer: F1 FreeBSD F5 Disk2 This doesn't look very good. How do I make it like this: F1 FreeBSD F2 Windows XP I heard I had to rewrite code. But that's pathetic! Plus, I'm

Re: Proper dual booting

2005-05-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello. Here is what I see when I turn on my computer: F1 FreeBSD F5 Disk2 This doesn't look very good. How do I make it like this: F1 FreeBSD F2 Windows XP I heard I had to rewrite code. But that's pathetic! Plus, I'm kinda dumb. Before you start calling thing

Mouse problems booting rebooting

2005-05-26 Thread vdm . fbsd
I have a laptop with a touchpad which is seen by FreeBSD 5.4 as a ps/2 mouse. I configured moused and xorg.conf where the mouse has protocol Auto and device /dev/sysmouse. now, 1) if I turn ON the pc and boot the mouse works flawlessly as expected. Specifically I mean, among other things, that

Re: Booting from a flash card

2005-05-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
card as a boot device. Is there any way to run with a FreeBSD system (4.11) off of a flash card rather than a hard drive? Any way to boot up with the flash card? The BIOS has to initiate the booting. If the system can't boot off of flash, you need to start the boot off some other device

Re: Booting from a flash card

2005-05-26 Thread Karan Gupta
drive? Any way to boot up with the flash card? The BIOS has to initiate the booting. If the system can't boot off of flash, you need to start the boot off some other device, and then you will be able to run some kind of boot management from the other device

Re: Booting from a flash card

2005-05-26 Thread Fabian Anklam
On 5/25/05, Jamie Ostrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a Ricoh (Ricoh RL5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge) with a 1Gb PCMCIA Compact Flash card. I'd like to install FreeBSD on the flash card and to be able to boot with the flash. The problem I am running into is that my BIOS doesn't

Booting from a flash card

2005-05-24 Thread Jamie Ostrowski
I've got a Ricoh (Ricoh RL5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge) with a 1Gb PCMCIA Compact Flash card. I'd like to install FreeBSD on the flash card and to be able to boot with the flash. The problem I am running into is that my BIOS doesn't recognize the flash card as a boot device. Is there any way

RE: Booting from DOS?

2005-05-09 Thread fbsd_user
to be caused by the new boot sequence code in 5.x. If above solution works for you please submit bug report on it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ron Hudson Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 7:18 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Booting

Re: Booting from DOS?

2005-05-09 Thread Joel
partition, 70mb swap and the rest of the 2gb hard drive as one bsd slice The BSD slice is all one filesystem "/" I have Fedora Core, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD multi-booting on a sempron box at home. I ended up using the Fedora Core low-level boot manager, but that's GRU

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