Re: FreeBSD 8.4 Boot failure

2013-09-26 Thread Tyler Sweet
Well, I wasn't able to continue troubleshooting. I took the opportunity that the server was already down to upgrade the BIOS. HP kindly does not provide any checks or warnings letting you know that you need to do a stepped upgrade, so the server is bricked. *sigh*. So this likely won't get

Re: FreeBSD 8.4 Boot failure

2013-09-25 Thread Terje Elde
On 25. sep. 2013, at 06:59, Tyler Sweet ty...@tsweet.net wrote: I tried reinstalling the boot blocks from both the fixit live filesystem and also mounting zroot and using the files there in case they were different. Disclaimer: I haven't gotten (enough) morning-coffee yet, but... Disclaimer

Re: FreeBSD 8.4 Boot failure

2013-09-25 Thread Tyler Sweet
Luckily, in this case, I had set a cron job long, long ago to do daily snapshots. So I have a snapshot from before the upgrade - There are indeed two different loaders. The newer one matches zfs when grepped, the older one does not... But, since it was working before, I restored the older loader

Re: FreeBSD 8.1 - boot failures (upgrades and clean installs) - root FS corrupt?

2010-09-18 Thread David Rawling
On 18/09/2010 6:19 PM, I wrote: Any suggestions on debugging what's going on? I'd really like to be able to get current. Dave. Hmm. Further diagnosis is even more interesting. The output from the installation (console 2 - Alt-F2) shows segmentation faults and core dumps for mv, rm and ln

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Craig Russell
Sorry if this is obvious but I just did this myself with similar problems. Is your /boot a seperate partition? If so, bsd will not boot. It will happily install but will come back with a no kernel found error or similar. I believe this is because only the / partition is mounted at that point.

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:49 AM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 on an HP Proliant G5 server with an E200i Smart Controller installed. The installation was flawless. When I reboot the server after the installation, the boot loader screen is displayed. I press F1 and the system

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread jhall
Both of those checked OK. Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S incorrectly during setup? Thanks, Jay At 10:49 AM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 on an HP Proliant G5 server with an E200i Smart Controller installed. The installation was flawless. When I

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both of those checked OK. Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S incorrectly during setup? Thanks, What is your type and model hard drive? Did you specify the geometry when you ran sysinstall? How did you partition and slice the hard

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread jhall
At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both of those checked OK. Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S incorrectly during setup? Thanks, What is your type and model hard drive? Did you specify the geometry when you ran sysinstall? How did you partition and slice the hard

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:16 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both of those checked OK. Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S incorrectly during setup? Thanks, What is your type and model hard drive? Did you specify the geometry when you ran

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread jhall
At 01:16 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both of those checked OK. Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S incorrectly during setup? Thanks, What is your type and model hard drive? Did you specify the geometry when you ran

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:31 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:16 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both of those checked OK. Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S incorrectly during setup? Thanks, What is your type and model hard

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread jhall
I have been able to make the system boot. I had to change one of the Array options to Max Boot enabled 8gb. I found this in an older post concerning a different controller, but it worked. Specifically, my server is an ML350 with the E200i controller. Thanks to everyone for your help. Jay

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:31:05PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:16 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both of those checked OK. Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S incorrectly during setup? Thanks, What is

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread jhall
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:31:05PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:16 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both of those checked OK. Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S incorrectly during setup? Thanks, What is

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread youshi10
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:31:05PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:16 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both of those checked OK. Is it possible I have specified the C/H/S incorrectly

Re: FREEBSD I386 BOOT HANG

2006-06-05 Thread Nick Withers
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 03:45:47 -0700 (PDT) CATHERINE LORENZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I HAVE A TOSHIBA LAPTOP I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO LOAD THE CD VERSION 5.2.1 FREEBSD ONTO MY LAPTOP WITH NO LUCK. IT FREEZES AFTER THE IT BOOTS, I DID DISABLE THE ACPI BUT IT STILL FROZE. IS THERE A WAY TO

Re: FREEBSD I386 BOOT HANG

2006-06-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
CATHERINE LORENZ wrote: I HAVE A TOSHIBA LAPTOP I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO LOAD THE CD VERSION 5.2.1 FREEBSD ONTO MY LAPTOP WITH NO LUCK. IT FREEZES AFTER THE IT BOOTS, I DID DISABLE THE ACPI BUT IT STILL FROZE. IS THERE A WAY TO FIX THIS PROBLEM? 5.2.1 is so old that it is no longer

Re: FreeBSD-multi-boot

2006-05-15 Thread Danny Butroyd
Vlad GURDIGA wrote: Hello all, I have these slices on my HDD: - /dev/ad0s1 - Windows XP - /dev/ad0s2 - FreeBSD/i386 - /dev/ad0s3 - FreeBSD/amd64 and I want them all in my boot.ini. Till now I succeeded with FreeBSD/i386 (first did dd if=/dev/ad0s2 of=boot.bsd bs=512 count=1 from

Re: FreeBSD Windows Boot?

2006-02-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
If for what ever reason the FreeBSD boot loader does load windows, is there a way to repair the windows boot sector? I remember trying this in the past with ill results. Probably depends on what is wrong. Probably there is some MS utility that can repair it. Someone else will have to talk

Re: FreeBSD Windows Boot?

2006-02-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
Jerry McAllister wrote: If for what ever reason the FreeBSD boot loader does load windows, is there a way to repair the windows boot sector? I remember trying this in the past with ill results. Probably depends on what is wrong. Probably there is some MS utility that can repair

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted

2005-05-22 Thread Vizion
On Saturday 21 May 2005 03:42, the author Thomas Hurst contributed to the dialogue on Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted: * Vizion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This system has been built in a mini ATX case and has a Proxim Harmony 802.11a Model 8150 PCI card on (I am on a boat

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted

2005-05-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Vizion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This system has been built in a mini ATX case and has a Proxim Harmony 802.11a Model 8150 PCI card on (I am on a boat - then intention is to be able to disconnect it from the ships network, lug it to a position in range of a wireless network and do a

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted

2005-05-21 Thread Vizion
On Saturday 21 May 2005 03:42, the author Thomas Hurst contributed to the dialogue on Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted: * Vizion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This system has been built in a mini ATX case and has a Proxim Harmony 802.11a Model 8150 PCI card on (I am on a boat

RE: freebsd not boot

2004-02-23 Thread Pat Saunders
: 20 February 2004 19:00 To: Pat Saunders Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: freebsd not boot On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:21:43 - Pat Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to run freebsd 4.9 on a PC / IDE architecture. I have one IDE drive and two 3COM 3c90 Network Cards and CD

Re: freebsd not boot

2004-02-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:21:43 - Pat Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to run freebsd 4.9 on a PC / IDE architecture. I have one IDE drive and two 3COM 3c90 Network Cards and CD-ROM The PC will be a dedicated FreeBSD box. I have installed freebsd v4.9 , using the whole 4G

Re: FreeBSD Wont Boot

2002-11-15 Thread Andrew Boothman
Matt wrote: I have a freeBSD machine that wont boot due To the fact that its checking an ethernet port that does not exist. How can i disable it, or get rid of it? Can you be more specific in describing your problem? Do you get an error message? Does the system stop responding during boot?