Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-06 Thread Simon
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 19:43:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: I booted the 9.1 install CD, executed gpart destroy -F ada0, and installed. After completing the install, boot fails with: ERROR: No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed. That is a BIOS error, probably due to UEFI

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-06 Thread Warren Block
is supposed to replace MBR and UEFI is the future. Perhaps there is something in UEFI that can be tweaked to make it work with GPT? Yes. There should be some sort of legacy boot. In UEFI mode, SecureBoot can be disabled, so with the correct partition layout FreeBSD should boot even in UEFI (untested

FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-05 Thread James E. Pace
Hi, I bought an HP Pavilion p7-1597c [1] system last week. It is Intel Core i5-3330, with a Seagate 1.5 TB SATA drive and 12 GB of memory, shipped with Windows 8. I have disabled Secure Boot and enabled Legacy device booting. I am able to complete the install of FreeBSD 9.1/amd64 from the CD

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-05 Thread Warren Block
, the only option for multi-boot on GPT disks is EasyBCD or grub (untested). But really, a VM is far preferable to multi-boot for many situations. FreeBSD 8.4 wouldn't install because the installer didn't have device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev in order to create the filesystems. That sounds

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-05 Thread James E. Pace
Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your trying to help me. On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James E. Pace wrote: I bought an HP Pavilion p7-1597c [1] system last week. It is Intel Core i5-3330, with a Seagate 1.5 TB SATA drive and

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-05 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James E. Pace wrote: Thanks for the reply. I appreciate your trying to help me. On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James E. Pace wrote: I bought an HP Pavilion p7-1597c [1] system last week. It is Intel Core

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-05 Thread James Pace
You, sir, are a wizard. You magical incantations worked, and I now have a bootable FreeBSD 9.1 system.  ​ ​ Use 'gpart destroy' again, and set up an MBR partitioning scheme:  http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=149210postcount=13   I really, really appreciate your help. ​  James

Re: FreeBSD 9.1 won't boot after install

2013-07-05 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, James Pace wrote: You, sir, are a wizard. You magical incantations worked, and I now have a bootable FreeBSD 9.1 system. ? ? Use 'gpart destroy' again, and set up an MBR partitioning scheme: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=149210postcount=13 I really, really

freebsd-update and /boot/kernel/linker.hints

2013-05-13 Thread Wolfgang Riegler
Hi, since last freebsd-update fetch install I always get this message after freebsd-update fetch: The following files will be updated as part of updating to 9.1-RELEASE-p3: /boot/kernel/linker.hints but freebsd-update install doesn't install anything. Is there something wrong with my system

Re: freebsd-update and /boot/kernel/linker.hints

2013-05-13 Thread Stephan Schindel
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:22:41AM +0200, Wolfgang Riegler wrote: Hi, since last freebsd-update fetch install I always get this message after freebsd-update fetch: The following files will be updated as part of updating to 9.1-RELEASE-p3: /boot/kernel/linker.hints but freebsd-update

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-07 Thread vermaden
Good to see you've finally been burned. You'll never make that mistake again. :) I liked that syntax: ASD { asd } || { bsd } mostly because of syntax highlighting, to be precise highlighting of the second bracket of a pair at editors, nor VIM neither GEANY highlight if/then/elif/else/fi

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
vermaden == vermaden verma...@interia.pl writes: Good to see you've finally been burned. You'll never make that mistake again. :) vermaden I liked that syntax: vermaden ASD { vermaden asd vermaden } || { vermaden bsd vermaden } vermaden mostly because of syntax highlighting, to be

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-07 Thread vermaden
Emacs indents it nicely, and colorizes the keywords so that it stands out. Indentification is not a problem, it work both in geany and vim. Probably I haven't made clear what I meant ;) Take a look at this picture: http://ompldr.org/vZG50bQ The brackets in that specific section (asd) are

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-05 Thread vermaden
And no difference on 8.3 :( Should there have been a promote in there somewhere? It looks like the boot env is still dependent on the very old zroot. Hi, I have just recreated from scratch Your zroot root setup under VirtualBox and tested it deeply. There was an interesting BUG in the

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
vermaden == vermaden verma...@interia.pl writes: vermaden To the point, check these two code snippets, they should vermaden do EXACLY the same, logic is the same, the differece is vermaden only the syntax. vermaden snippet 1: vermaden [ ${MOUNT} -eq 0 ] { vermaden zfs set

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread vermaden
I have zfs-on-root using the classical documentation (everything under zpool, possibly with some sub-mounts, but I've left those out lately). Is there a way to transition my system to a form that beadm expects? I tried just running it, and it's upset that zpool/ROOT doesn't exist. Hi, I

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
vermaden == vermaden verma...@interia.pl writes: vermaden # fetch https://github.com/vermaden/beadm/blob/master/beadm Heh. That's HTML. I think you want fetch https://raw.github.com/vermaden/beadm/master/beadm vermaden # chmod +x beadm vermaden # ./beadm list vermaden # ./beadm activate

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: vermaden == vermaden verma...@interia.pl writes: vermaden # fetch https://github.com/vermaden/beadm/blob/master/beadm Randal and after reboot, zfs set mountpoint=none zroot would also seem to Randal clean that up. Oh wait, it looks

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: Randal Oh wait, it looks like zroot is still holding 1.04G of data... will Randal that ever go away? Shouldn't all the data be in the /ROOT/xxx Randal items? And worse, the things from the readme don't work: locohost# ./beadm create

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: Randal This is FreeBSD 8.2. And no difference on 8.3 :( Should there have been a promote in there somewhere? It looks like the boot env is still dependent on the very old zroot. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services,

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-04 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 5/4/2012 5:10 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Randal == Randal L Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com writes: Randal Oh wait, it looks like zroot is still holding 1.04G of data... will Randal that ever go away? Shouldn't all the data be in the /ROOT/xxx Randal items? And worse, the things

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-03 Thread vermaden
Hi, I just tested your tool the last few days and I must say I love it already. Though I can get one of the commands to work - might be me or the syntax beadm create [-e nonActiveBe | beName@snapshot] beName I read it as you can do the following beadm create beName@snapshot beName

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-03 Thread vermaden
Kalle Møller freebsd-questi...@k-moeller.dk: And I forgot If I do a create and destroy, I would assume my system was back to same state, but you keep the snapshot when I destroy the clone, dont know if its working as intended (better safe to keep it than sorry) or you just didn't think of

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-02 Thread Kalle Møller
Is that correct or is it beadm create -e beName@snapshot beName Well neither of those seems to work for me, can you give an example of the use? Thanks Kalle On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:08 AM, vermaden verma...@interia.pl wrote: Hi, I have just created new HOWTO [1] on how to use Boot Environments

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-05-02 Thread Kalle Møller
beName@snapshot beName Well neither of those seems to work for me, can you give an example of the use? Thanks Kalle On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:08 AM, vermaden verma...@interia.pl wrote: Hi, I have just created new HOWTO [1] on how to use Boot Environments on FreeBSD with new created

Re: HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-04-27 Thread vermaden
Hi, do you know manageBE? Google for it, it is the first hit. This works for me like a charm since about a year. Bye, Alexander. Hi, yes I know and used manageBE for a while, I even mentioned it in the HOWTO (quote below) but thought that making *beadm* that is compatible with

HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness (Boot Environments)

2012-04-26 Thread vermaden
Hi, I have just created new HOWTO [1] on how to use Boot Environments on FreeBSD with new created utility *beadm* that I put on SourceForge [2]. Feel free to send Your ideas/critique about it. [1] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=31662 [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/beadm

FreeBSD 8.1/amd64: Boot from eSATA drive (external)?

2011-10-17 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello I'v got a notebook (HP Elite 2560p) which can boot from an exteral eSATA drive. Can FreeBSD boot from there? Is it supported? Kind regards, -- Martin Schweizer off...@pc-service.ch PC-Service M. Schweizer GmbH; Bannholzstrasse 6; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243

Re: FreeBSD 8.1/amd64: Boot from eSATA drive (external)?

2011-10-17 Thread perryh
Martin Schweizer lists_free...@bluewin.ch wrote: I'v got a notebook (HP Elite 2560p) which can boot from an exteral eSATA drive. Can FreeBSD boot from there? Is it supported? It seems as if it should work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

freebsd 8.0 slow boot

2010-01-20 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
speed up that boot wait process. Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: freebsd 8.0 slow boot

2010-01-20 Thread Amitabh Kant
this is related with that. Is there any option to use old TTY subsystem on 8.0 or how can I speed up that boot wait process. Regards. I am having the same problem with a dual processor Intel board. Would be interested if any setting can speed up the boot process. Amitabh Kant

Q: FreeBSD 7.1 stable boot failure

2009-03-26 Thread John H. Nyhuis
the POST completes. The keyboard goes dead (numlock and caps lock stop working) and it never starts to load. I can't get the system to a point where I can get an error to work with. When I remove the 3ware card, the system boot fine. FreeBSD is installed on my system's internal SCSI drives

Re: Q: FreeBSD 7.1 stable boot failure

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Powell
immediatly after the POST completes. The keyboard goes dead (numlock and caps lock stop working) and it never starts to load. I can't get the system to a point where I can get an error to work with. When I remove the 3ware card, the system boot fine. FreeBSD is installed on my system's

Re: FreeBSD diskless workstation boot over Linux PXE server

2008-03-04 Thread Erik Cederstrand
shows the following: (for my freeBSD diskless client testing scenario) filename pxeboot; next-server 192.168.16.5; option root-path 192.168.16.5:/export/images/freeBSD; -- pxeboot is the freeBSD /boot/pxeboot file I copied over to my /tftpboot directory. -- next server IP is the PXE/TFTPD/DHCP

Re: FreeBSD diskless workstation boot over Linux PXE server

2008-03-04 Thread vincenzo romero
is a linux host 2. DHCP - server - dhcpd.conf file shows the following: (for my freeBSD diskless client testing scenario) filename pxeboot; next-server 192.168.16.5; option root-path 192.168.16.5:/export/images/freeBSD; -- pxeboot is the freeBSD /boot/pxeboot file I copied

Solved: FreeBSD diskless workstation boot over Linux PXE server

2008-03-04 Thread vincenzo romero
- server - dhcpd.conf file shows the following: (for my freeBSD diskless client testing scenario) filename pxeboot; next-server 192.168.16.5; option root-path 192.168.16.5:/export/images/freeBSD; -- pxeboot is the freeBSD /boot/pxeboot file I copied over to my /tftpboot

Re: FreeBSD diskless workstation boot over Linux PXE server

2008-03-03 Thread vincenzo romero
: (for my freeBSD diskless client testing scenario) filename pxeboot; next-server 192.168.16.5; option root-path 192.168.16.5:/export/images/freeBSD; -- pxeboot is the freeBSD /boot/pxeboot file I copied over to my /tftpboot directory. -- next server IP is the PXE/TFTPD/DHCP server ... -- the NFS root

FreeBSD CDs don't boot with my Sony Vaio BGN-BX397XP

2008-01-17 Thread Philippe Nenert
Hello, I'have a Sony Vaio BGN-BX397XP. I'have Windows XP and Mandriva installed, but I want use FreeBSD. I cant boot with any CD, the system displays rapidly lines on the screen incomprehensible, I have a picture for that. I'have test 6.2, 6.3 and 7.0 beta 4 CDs You can see on back the model

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-18 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :)

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread David Landgren
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 14/05/2007, at 10:41 AM, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Sam Lawrance wrote: On 13/05/2007, at 6:15 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: [...] the drive, and likely to remain that way until the

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Thanks, David Hmm, I've never heard any beeps on shutdown... how do you shutdown

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread Victor Engmark
On 5/17/07, Pieter de Goeje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Hmm, I've never heard any beeps on

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 17 May 2007, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Thanks, David Hmm, I've

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread David Landgren
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :) Thanks, David Hmm, I've never heard any beeps on shutdown...

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 17/05/07, David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2007, David Landgren wrote: Heh, ok, for extra bonus points, what/where is the code that makes the two annoying BEEPs on shutdown? If I could compile that out, my life would be complete :)

FreeBSD 7.0 ZFS boot freeze

2007-05-15 Thread pepe perez
I have an ASUS P4S800D motherboard with a Seagate 120GB Serial ATA disk. I want to install on it FreeBSD 7.0 ZFS, but I have probed all options in beastie screen and all freezed during boot process (usually when it reach the CD/DVD type detection). I'm now using that motherboard with FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 ZFS boot freeze

2007-05-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
pepe perez wrote: I have an ASUS P4S800D motherboard with a Seagate 120GB Serial ATA disk. I want to install on it FreeBSD 7.0 ZFS, but I have probed all options in beastie screen and all freezed during boot process (usually when it reach the CD/DVD type detection). I'm now using that

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 ZFS boot freeze

2007-05-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:42:17AM +, pepe perez wrote: I have an ASUS P4S800D motherboard with a Seagate 120GB Serial ATA disk. I want to install on it FreeBSD 7.0 ZFS, but I have probed all options in beastie screen and all freezed during boot process (usually when it reach the CD/DVD

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-15 Thread Sam Lawrance
instead of prompting? This is not the sort of thing I want to fiddle around experimenting, so a little guidance would be most appreciated. fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0 You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which gives you the 'press F1' business. Replace that with the standard mbr

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-15 Thread Pieter de Goeje
default_selection=F1 (Slice 1) ... what do I have to do to say JFDI instead of prompting? This is not the sort of thing I want to fiddle around experimenting, so a little guidance would be most appreciated. fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0 You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-13 Thread Sam Lawrance
default_selection=F1 (Slice 1) ... what do I have to do to say JFDI instead of prompting? This is not the sort of thing I want to fiddle around experimenting, so a little guidance would be most appreciated. fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0 You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which gives you

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
/dev/ad0 You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which gives you the 'press F1' business. Replace that with the standard mbr, which just boots straight up. Rather than replacing it, you can use boot0cfg to set a really short timeout instead; in case you might want that functionality one

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-13 Thread Sam Lawrance
would be most appreciated. fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0 You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which gives you the 'press F1' business. Replace that with the standard mbr, which just boots straight up. Rather than replacing it, you can use boot0cfg to set a really short timeout

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
of thing I want to fiddle around experimenting, so a little guidance would be most appreciated. fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0 You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which gives you the 'press F1' business. Replace that with the standard mbr, which just boots straight up. Rather

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-13 Thread David Landgren
guidance would be most appreciated. fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0 You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which gives you the 'press F1' business. Replace that with the standard mbr, which just boots straight up. Rather than replacing it, you can use boot0cfg to set a really short

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-13 Thread Pieter de Goeje
? This is not the sort of thing I want to fiddle around experimenting, so a little guidance would be most appreciated. fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0 You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which gives you the 'press F1' business. Replace that with the standard mbr, which just boots straight

Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-12 Thread David Landgren
List, I have a disk that has only FreeBSD on it, and so I would like to skip the initial F1/FreeBSD prompt. boot0cfg -v ad0 says: options=nopacket,update,nosetdrv default_selection=F1 (Slice 1) ... what do I have to do to say JFDI instead of prompting? This is not the sort of thing I want

Re: Skipping F1 FreeBSD prompt on boot

2007-05-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
to say JFDI instead of prompting? This is not the sort of thing I want to fiddle around experimenting, so a little guidance would be most appreciated. fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0 You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which gives you the 'press F1' business. Replace that with the standard

Re: Freebsd Fail to boot

2006-12-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Thomas Wahyudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have freebsd 6.1 and 6.2 RC1 and i trying to install to my desktop computer using old motherboard ASUS P4S533 but everytime install is finish and trying to boot from HD its make my coumputer reboot and reboot again seems something wrong with boot

Freebsd Fail to boot

2006-12-01 Thread Thomas Wahyudi
Hi, I have freebsd 6.1 and 6.2 RC1 and i trying to install to my desktop computer using old motherboard ASUS P4S533 but everytime install is finish and trying to boot from HD its make my coumputer reboot and reboot again seems something wrong with boot loader, is there something i can do to

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

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-20 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 19 , at 10:38, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-19 Thread Jeff Cross
Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:54, Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-19 Thread Jeff Cross
Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone having a problem

Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Jeff Cross
I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone having a problem with the machine booting too fast but my problem is a little different. My machine hangs up after the following line is displayed during boot:

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone having a problem with the machine booting too fast but my problem is a little different. My machine hangs up

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Jeff Cross
Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone having a problem with the machine booting too fast but my problem is a little different.

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone having a problem with the machine booting

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:54, Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found

Re: Problem Restoring Dump Via Fixit Environment in FreeBSD 6.0 Release Boot Cdrom

2006-04-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 00:17, Brian McKeon wrote: Hello I'm having a problem restoring my backup of my FreeBSD installation. I recently upgraded hardrives in my laptop and made backups of my Gentoo and FreeBSD partitions. Gentoo restored with no troubles BSD however... I have made a dump of

Re: Problem Restoring Dump Via Fixit Environment in FreeBSD 6.0 Release Boot Cdrom

2006-04-18 Thread backyard1454-nospam
--- John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 April 2006 00:17, Brian McKeon wrote: Hello I'm having a problem restoring my backup of my FreeBSD mount /dev/da0s1 /foobar fails with superblock errors (obviously) mount -t ext2fs /dev/da0s1 /foobar fails with mount_ext2fs

Problem Restoring Dump Via Fixit Environment in FreeBSD 6.0 Release Boot Cdrom

2006-04-17 Thread Brian McKeon
Hello I'm having a problem restoring my backup of my FreeBSD installation. I recently upgraded hardrives in my laptop and made backups of my Gentoo and FreeBSD partitions. Gentoo restored with no troubles BSD however... I have made a dump of my filesystems and copied them onto an Ext2fs USB

Re: FreeBSD hangs at boot

2006-04-06 Thread usleepless
on my desktop machine, but with no luck. When I boot in anything but Safe Mode, FreeBSD will hang at boot and refuse to go further. I've tried to let have a go at it for 30 minutes, but the boot process didnt get any further. When I try to boot the machine normally, it freezes at the following

Re: FreeBSD hangs at boot

2006-04-06 Thread usleepless
Giorgios, i did it again! sorry! regards, usleep ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD hangs at boot

2006-04-05 Thread Daniel A.
Hi. I am trying to get FreeBSD 6.0 running on my desktop machine, but with no luck. When I boot in anything but Safe Mode, FreeBSD will hang at boot and refuse to go further. I've tried to let have a go at it for 30 minutes, but the boot process didnt get any further. When I try to boot

Freebsd failure to boot from CD on HO Pavillion ze4600

2006-03-31 Thread scion+fbsdq
Greetings, I've got an HP Pavillion ze4610us laptop. I've burned a number of FreeBSD 5 (and FreeSBIE 1.1) images to cd, and have had no luck getting this system to boot from them. The same images boot on other systems, and the laptop in question boots WinXP CDs just fine. I'm stumped, and

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1-STABLE boot problem

2005-10-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
assist me in solving this problem and making FreeBSD boot up? Step 1: Try a modern release of FreeBSD like 5.4. 5.2.1 was an early adopter's release not intended for production use. Kris pgpWlc0gCSUZG.pgp Description: PGP signature

FreeBSD 5.2.1-STABLE boot problem

2005-10-12 Thread Sergey Khenkin
. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] ... /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x45d64c - elf32_loadexec: archsw.readin failed can't load 'kernel' I successfully installed the same system on several other modern PCs. Can anyone assist me in solving this problem and making FreeBSD boot up? -- Best regards, Sergey

FreeBSD 5.2.1-STABLE boot problem

2005-10-12 Thread Sergey Khenkin
. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] ... /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x45d64c - elf32_loadexec: archsw.readin failed can't load 'kernel' I successfully installed the same system on several other modern PCs. Can anyone assist me in solving this problem and making FreeBSD boot up? -- Best regards, Sergey

Re: Recompiled freebsd 5.4 cannot boot up with geom_mirror

2005-09-13 Thread Igor Robul
Ng Pek Yong wrote: Did you run make buildworld before you run make buildkernel? Maybe kernel and world are out of sync on your system. Yes, that was the problem. Looks like I have a lot to learn about FreeBSD ;) You dont need make buildworld if you have not changed source

Re: Recompiled freebsd 5.4 cannot boot up with geom_mirror

2005-09-12 Thread Ng Pek Yong
--- Christian Hiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 10 September 2005 04:06:04, Ng Pek Yong wrote: --- Christian Hiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 17:04:17, Ng Pek Yong wrote: Hi, I am having some problem with geom_mirror on a

Re: Recompiled freebsd 5.4 cannot boot up with geom_mirror

2005-09-10 Thread Christian Hiris
On Saturday 10 September 2005 04:06:04, Ng Pek Yong wrote: --- Christian Hiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 17:04:17, Ng Pek Yong wrote: Hi, I am having some problem with geom_mirror on a freebsd 5.4. I followed the steps described in

Recompiled freebsd 5.4 cannot boot up with geom_mirror

2005-09-09 Thread Ng Pek Yong
Hi, I am having some problem with geom_mirror on a freebsd 5.4. I followed the steps described in http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ and got geom_mirror up on a stock freebsd 5.4, including / partition itself. The problem came when I compiled the kernel. After pulling in the latest source

Re: Recompiled freebsd 5.4 cannot boot up with geom_mirror

2005-09-09 Thread Christian Hiris
On Friday 09 September 2005 17:04:17, Ng Pek Yong wrote: Hi, I am having some problem with geom_mirror on a freebsd 5.4. I followed the steps described in http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ and got geom_mirror up on a stock freebsd 5.4, including / partition itself. The problem came

Re: Recompiled freebsd 5.4 cannot boot up with geom_mirror

2005-09-09 Thread Ng Pek Yong
--- Christian Hiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 09 September 2005 17:04:17, Ng Pek Yong wrote: Hi, I am having some problem with geom_mirror on a freebsd 5.4. I followed the steps described in http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ and got geom_mirror up on a stock

FreeBSD will not boot

2005-07-15 Thread Adam Stroud
All: I updated my nvidia drivers from the ports collection (Using the WITH_LEGACY_GPU_SUPPORT option to add support for my GeFroce2 GTS). During the upgrade process, my machine rebooted on it's own and now when I boot I get the following error message: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 24 23:25:37

Re: FreeBSD will not boot

2005-07-15 Thread nawcom
when you install a new kernel the makefile copies the original kernel folder (/boot/kernel) to /boot/kernel.old and /boot/kernel is replaced with the new one. when you boot up freebsd and you get to the boot screen - select option number 6. then enter the following commands: unload load /boot

Re: FreeBSD will not boot

2005-07-15 Thread Adam Stroud
/kernel) to /boot/kernel.old and /boot/kernel is replaced with the new one. when you boot up freebsd and you get to the boot screen - select option number 6. then enter the following commands: unload load /boot/kernel.old/kernel boot let me know if you make it into the OS and if you do

FreeBSD just won't boot!

2004-12-21 Thread jsha
Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a HP Compaq DC7100 but it doesn't want to boot after the installation. I've tried a few things here: 1) Installing with/without ACPI 2) Installing with BootMgr as well as Standard MBR 3) Entered the BIOS setup (F10) to look for solving options And

Re: FreeBSD just won't boot!

2004-12-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-21 10:20, jsha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a HP Compaq DC7100 but it doesn't want to boot after the installation. I've tried a few things here: 1) Installing with/without ACPI 2) Installing with BootMgr as well as Standard MBR 3) Entered

Re: FreeBSD doesn't even boot!

2004-12-21 Thread jsha
Hey! --- Abstract: I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a brand new HP Compaq. But whether I install it with BootMgr or the standard MBR, the computer won't enter the FreeBSD boot process. Instead, it reboots itself in an infinite loop. --- Thanks for the reply so far. FreeBSD still won't boot

Re: FreeBSD just won't boot!

2004-12-21 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:20:25 +0100 jsha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a HP Compaq DC7100 but it doesn't want to boot after the installation. I've tried a few things here: 1) Installing with/without ACPI 2) Installing with BootMgr as well as

Re: FreeBSD just won't boot!

2004-12-21 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:12:38 +0100 jsha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. How is it failing? It reboots in an infinite loop. I've tried almost every option the BIOS can offer me, like disabling ACPI/APIC and DMA ... but to no good. I do not see any UNIX option in it, even though it at

Re: FreeBSD doesn't even boot!

2004-12-20 Thread Tom Vilot
Jorn Argelo wrote: You might want to consider installing a standard MBR during the installation (so not the FreeBSD bootloader). Then only FreeBSD will boot if you have selected the drive as the primary drive in the bios Oh, that reminds me of another question. I installed 5.3 on a Dell

FreeBSD doesn't even boot!

2004-12-19 Thread jsha
Hello all. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 (using the mini-installation ISO) on my new HP/Compaq stationary. It has to Serial-ATA harddrives, and I want one for FreeBSD and one for Windows. I installed FreeBSD along with BootMgr, but it does not want to boot. It just makes silly beeps. I am

Re: FreeBSD doesn't even boot!

2004-12-19 Thread Jorn Argelo
when you say some kind :) You have to be more specific. On other words, tell us exactly what you see. You might want to consider installing a standard MBR during the installation (so not the FreeBSD bootloader). Then only FreeBSD will boot if you have selected the drive as the primary drive

Re: FreeBSD doesn't even boot!

2004-12-19 Thread Chris
jsha wrote: Hello all. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 (using the mini-installation ISO) on my new HP/Compaq stationary. It has to Serial-ATA harddrives, and I want one for FreeBSD and one for Windows. I installed FreeBSD along with BootMgr, but it does not want to boot. It just makes silly

freebsd + linux dual boot share filesystem?

2004-05-19 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Hello, I'm about to setup a dual boot of linux + freebsd (5.2.1-RELEASE) on a 160gb hard disk. I'd really like linux and freebsd to share (be able to read and write) the bulk of the disk so that I can work in either environment freely. FreeBSD's ext2fs kernel module would seem preferable over

FreeBSD SCSI/RAID boot problem

2004-01-27 Thread Marc Cabanatuan
nothing, this was solved by fixing the drive geometry with a win98 boot disk. Now the problem is that it seems to not be finding the kernel or /boot device or / partition. Error message is as follows: Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x45e080) No /boot/loader | FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot

Re: FreeBSD hangs on boot

2004-01-13 Thread W. Ryan Merrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just recently got an old HP NetServer LH Plus (specs): Pentium 166MHz (dual processor board with single cpu) 128MB of RAM (DIMM's) Mylex DAC960 RAID controller 5x 4.2GB SCSI RAID5 array. -- At any rate, I've tried using my 4.3-RELEASE, 5.1-RELEASE cd's but those fail to

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