suddenly I
discovered that CD drive was working. I could burn files also through this
drive. Though booting was not possible from CD. After few days suddenly,
system stopped loading win7. I wanted to re install win7, but was not
possible without the option of booting from CD. Whenever I tried to boot
I have observed these messages being written to the system log when
initially booting up the machine and then starting KDE.
Oct 6 08:16:09 scorpio dbus[5896]: [system] Activating service
name='org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit' (using servicehelper)
Oct 6 08:16:09 scorpio dbus[5896
... sometimes I get a normal boot procedure were I can proceed to install.
Other times I get the mountroot prompt and upon pressing enter, the system
reboots.
This seems random with the same hardware setup. I literally have to stare at
the screen for it to finally push through to the install p
Warren Block wrote:
> Decided to ignore the CD and just copy the files to a simulated MS-DOS
> drive. Got to the point of copying distributions, process documented
> here: http://wonkity.com/~wblock/freebsd-1.0/freebsd1.txt
I had a quick scan
BTW here's another URL for the same image:
http://p
Decided to ignore the CD and just copy the files to a simulated MS-DOS
drive. Got to the point of copying distributions, process documented
here: http://wonkity.com/~wblock/freebsd-1.0/freebsd1.txt
So far, it's giving me a new appreciation for modern installers.
Julian, you are listed in the
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 June 2013 11:11, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Warren Block wrote:
Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here:
http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IM
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Warren Block wrote:
Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here:
http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/
emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdinstal directory,
but
That CD-ROM should not be the ones found now , but Sound-Blaster CD-ROM
which is different from
the present day CD-ROM . Sound-Blaster CD-ROM should be attached to
Sound-Blaster card , not to
IDE port .
Regular CD-ROM ( attached to IDE port ) started by later versions of
FreeBSD .
Thank you ver
On 27 June 2013 11:11, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>>
>> Warren Block wrote:
>> > Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here:
>> > http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/
>> >
>>
On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Warren Block wrote:
> > Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here:
> >
> http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/
> >
> > emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdin
Warren Block wrote:
> Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here:
> http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/
>
> emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdinstal directory,
> but reports "no cdrom found".
>
> I mana
Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here:
http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/
emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdinstal directory,
but reports "no cdrom found".
I managed to find a Pentium 4 system w
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 03:11:29PM +1030, Shane Ambler wrote:
> On 06/03/2013 14:54, Doug Poland wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:26:07PM +1030, Shane Ambler wrote:
> >>On 06/03/2013 05:14, Doug Poland wrote:
>
> >>>I have 6 disks in a RAIDZ configuration. All disks were sliced the
> >>>same
with bootcode would be overkill,
but the consistency may be easier to maintain.
I'm guessing that you ask as your machine isn't booting. You
probably need to boot from a cd and do adjustments.
Not exactly, I have a failing disk in slot 0, which corresponds to
da0 in my device list (A
On Mar 5, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Doug Poland wrote:
> I'm running ZFS filesystem ver 3, storage pool ver 14, on 8-STABLE
> amd64. The kernel build is rather dated from around Feb 2010.
>
> I have 6 disks in a RAIDZ configuration. All disks were sliced
> the same with gpart (da(n)p1,p2,p3) with bootc
quot;zfs:rpool"
zfs:rpool is the "disk" you boot from.
I'm guessing that you ask as your machine isn't booting.
You probably need to boot from a cd and do adjustments.
You have zfs_load=yes in /boot/loader.conf ?
You have vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:rpool" in /boot/l
Hello,
I'm running ZFS filesystem ver 3, storage pool ver 14, on 8-STABLE
amd64. The kernel build is rather dated from around Feb 2010.
I have 6 disks in a RAIDZ configuration. All disks were sliced
the same with gpart (da(n)p1,p2,p3) with bootcode written to index 1,
swap on index 2 and freebsd
On 02/04/13 11:54, Alberto Mijares wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm finally playing with my net4801 and nanobsd. SanDisk CF is recognized.
>
> At my first try I had to disable DMA in ATA because it hanged out. Now
> it hangs when trying to mount root filesystem and mountroot> prompt
> appears. However,
> ada0: Previously was known as ad0
> GEOM: new disk ada0
> GEOM_PART: partition 2 has end offset beyond last LBA: 7999487 > 7813119
> GEOM_PART: partition 3 has start offset beyond last LBA: 7999488 > 7813119
> GEOM_PART: partition 3 has end offset beyond last LBA: 8002511 > 7813119
> GEOM_PART: i
Hi list,
I'm finally playing with my net4801 and nanobsd. SanDisk CF is recognized.
At my first try I had to disable DMA in ATA because it hanged out. Now
it hangs when trying to mount root filesystem and mountroot> prompt
appears. However, if a stop in loader prompt and type ls, files and
dirs a
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
On 30 January 2013, at 05:16, Fbsd8 wrote:
Doug Hardie wrote:
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie wrote:
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The
bios will no
On 30 January 2013, at 05:16, Fbsd8 wrote:
> Doug Hardie wrote:
>> On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
>>> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
>>> Doug Hardie wrote:
>>>
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The
bios will not boot from USB stick.
Doug Hardie wrote:
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie wrote:
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The
bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive.
It starts the boot process fine
On 1/29/2013 10:25 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote:
What is the system you are using? What external devices does it have
built-in support for? In the absence of any data - how about trying an
external hard drive?
Why not remove the hard drive, use another system to put FreeBSD on the
drive, and put
On 29 January 2013, at 20:25, d...@safeport.com wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
>
>> On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
>>> Doug Hardie wrote:
>>>
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on.
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie wrote:
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The
bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive.
It starts
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
> Doug Hardie wrote:
>
>> I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The
>> bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive.
>> It starts the boot process fine and get
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie wrote:
> I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The
> bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive.
> It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader
> message with revision 1.1. The
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will
not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. It starts the boot
process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader message with revision 1.1. Then
it puts out the machine, date, time the CD was created and
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Rick Miller wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have
> pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts?
Thanks for all your replies. Our current direction appears to be one
of modifying the FreeBSD
Rick Miller wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have
> pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts?
I use mfsBSD (http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/) and pxelinux.
DEFAULT boot/menu.c32
PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 0
MENU TITLE network boot menu - FreeBSD
LABEL ^1 -
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Rick Miller wrote:
Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have
pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts?
gpxelinux.0 is what I've used in my PXE article. The latest version I
tried was from SYSLINUX 4.04. gPXE is loaded as a seco
Hi Dan,
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Rick Miller wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have
>> pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts?
no Beekman
On 4 dec 2012, at 16:55, Rick Miller wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have
> pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts?
>
> --
> Take care
> Rick Miller
> __
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Rick Miller wrote:
Hi All,
Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have
pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts?
In the last paragraph of our description of PXE booting FreeBSD:
http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html
Hi All,
Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have
pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts?
--
Take care
Rick Miller
___
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd
with both the
bootme and bootonce attributes set. If it doesn't find any, or if they all
failed to boot it then tries booting partitions with just the bootme
attribute. It only boots the first UFS partition if no partitions have the
bootme attribute set, and IIRC that is for compatibility wi
s set. If it doesn't find any, or if
they all failed to boot it then tries booting partitions with just the
bootme attribute. It only boots the first UFS partition if no partitions
have the bootme attribute set, and IIRC that is for compatibility with
the 8.x gptboot which didn'
On Sat, 03-Nov-2012 at 23:34:48 +0100, jb wrote:
> Andre Albsmeier siemens.com> writes:
>
> > ...
> > However, when pressing F3, the system of slice 2(!) is
> > loaded. This is due to the fact that boot1 always loads
> > the first active FreeBSD slice ;-(.
> > ...
> > Is there no chance t
on a i386 box:
>
> Slice 1: Windows XP :-(
> Slice 2: FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE V1
> Slice 3: FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE V2
>
> The MBR is configured as:
>
> options=packet,noupdate,nosetdrv
> default_selection=F2 (Slice 2)
>
> When booting, I can choose between:
>
> F1 Win
&g
jb gmail.com> writes:
> ...
> I do not know the story of active slice in FreeBSD, but I know that neither
> Windows nor Linux require active partitions (in their jargon) to boot from any
> more.
> Perhaps it is time to review this requirement in FreeBSD and drop it if
> possible.
> Opinions are
Andre Albsmeier siemens.com> writes:
> ...
> However, when pressing F3, the system of slice 2(!) is
> loaded. This is due to the fact that boot1 always loads
> the first active FreeBSD slice ;-(.
> ...
> Is there no chance to actually honour the fact that F3 was
> pressed and boot from sl
t; The MBR is configured as:
>
> options=packet,noupdate,nosetdrv
> default_selection=F2 (Slice 2)
>
> When booting, I can choose between:
>
> F1 Win
> F2 FreeBSD
> F3 FreeBSD
>
> However, when pressing F3, the system of slice 2(!) is
> loaded. This is due to the fact that
For various reasons I have to use this disk layout:
One harddisk with MBR and 3 slices on a i386 box:
Slice 1: Windows XP :-(
Slice 2: FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE V1
Slice 3: FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE V2
The MBR is configured as:
options=packet,noupdate,nosetdrv
default_selection=F2 (Slice 2)
When booting, I
Hi all. I am in desperate need of some help with ZFS (maybe GPT) and
serial consoles. I use 19200 for my console speed for everything, so I
recompiled the boot blocks using "BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED="19200" " in
/etc/make.conf. I then ran this to install new blocks to my two drives in
the mirror pa
gs_stol...@juno.com wrote:
> I have an old FreeBSD system that I haven't used for a long time
> and I have forgotten the passwords. This machine has FreeBSD-4.3
> and FreeBSD-4.7 on it, and also MS' Windows98 . I tried getting
> onto that sy
I tried getting onto that system by
booting with a CD-ROM which started going and gave me the following
messages:
> > boot from ATAPI CD-ROM
> > CD Loader 1.2
> > Building the boot loader arguments
> > Relocating the loader
> I have an old FreeBSD system that I haven't used for a long time and
> I have forgotten the passwords. This machine has FreeBSD-4.3 and
> FreeBSD-4.7
> on it, and also MS' Windows98 . I tried getting onto that system by
> booting with a CD-ROM which
I have an old FreeBSD system that I haven't used for a long time and I
have forgotten the passwords. This machine has FreeBSD-4.3 and FreeBSD-4.7
on it, and also MS' Windows98 . I tried getting onto that system by booting
with a CD-ROM which started going and g
HI
I want to install freebse and boot it from grub as:
title FreeBSD 8.0 (USB)
map --mem (hd0,0)/iso/FreeBSD8.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)
boot
Which media type I must use when choosing 'media type' in menu?
as one way to solve problem is extract 8.2-RELEASE and packages
directorie
On 01/28/2012 08:54 AM, Bas Smeelen wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:32:10 +
Kaya Saman wrote:
Hi,
am just wondering if anyone has successfully managed to boot FreeBSD
9.0 and Linux.
I run Fedora 16 x64 with Grub installed in my MBR.
FBSD9 installed as the new disk scheme GPT. I think
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:32:10 +
Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> am just wondering if anyone has successfully managed to boot FreeBSD
> 9.0 and Linux.
>
> I run Fedora 16 x64 with Grub installed in my MBR.
>
> FBSD9 installed as the new disk scheme GPT. I think (I manually
> partitioned as
Hi,
am just wondering if anyone has successfully managed to boot FreeBSD 9.0
and Linux.
I run Fedora 16 x64 with Grub installed in my MBR.
FBSD9 installed as the new disk scheme GPT. I think (I manually
partitioned as my disk is quite crowded).
Anyway I found this:
http://lists.freebs
> > I'm trying to upgrade a brand new server from 8.2 to 9.0 via source. I've
> > done this upgrade twice so far, once on a vmware test system, and once on a
> > Sun X4100m2, both with success.
> >
> > On this system, which is a Supermicro motherboard, I have gmirror boot
> > disk. The other t
I'm trying to upgrade a brand new server from 8.2 to 9.0 via source. I've done
this upgrade twice so far, once on a vmware test system, and once on a Sun
X4100m2, both with success.
On this system, which is a Supermicro motherboard, I have gmirror boot disk.
The other two did not (hardware RA
On Dec 17, 2011 9:04 AM, "Maxime-Etienne de Gier"
wrote:
>
> I am really interested in Freebsd or PC-BSD but unfortunately every time
> when I download an ISO of either of them and try to boot up (from the
> DVD-ROM) my machine will not boot up (Laptop PackardBell).
> Any insight? Thanks and much
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:10:37 +0200, Rares Aioanei wrote
> On 12/17/2011 04:04 PM, Maxime-Etienne de Gier wrote:
> > I am really interested in Freebsd or PC-BSD but unfortunately every time
> > when I download an ISO of either of them and try to boot up (from the
> > DVD-ROM) my machine will not boo
From: Maxime-Etienne de Gier
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 9:04 AM
Subject: booting
I am really interested in Freebsd or PC-BSD but unfortunately every time
when I download an ISO of either of them and try to boot up
On 12/17/2011 04:04 PM, Maxime-Etienne de Gier wrote:
I am really interested in Freebsd or PC-BSD but unfortunately every time
when I download an ISO of either of them and try to boot up (from the
DVD-ROM) my machine will not boot up (Laptop PackardBell).
Any insight? Thanks and much regard.
M
I am really interested in Freebsd or PC-BSD but unfortunately every time
when I download an ISO of either of them and try to boot up (from the
DVD-ROM) my machine will not boot up (Laptop PackardBell).
Any insight? Thanks and much regard.
Maxime.
--
Maxime-Etienne de Gier
__
ore I added the PATA drive. However,
if I put the dead drive back in along with the new one, then it
boots. This also implies that the boot sector was only on the PATA
drive. But the PATA drive is for all intents and purposes dead. So how
is it booting? Is there any way to look into the SCSI
t the dead drive back in along
with the new one, then it boots. This also implies that the boot sector was
only on the PATA drive. But the PATA drive is for all intents and purposes
dead. So how is it booting? Is there any way to look into the SCSI drive and
see if there is a boot sector
On 23 April 2011, at 12:45, Michael L. Squires wrote:
> I haven't seen a verbose dmesg output booting from a non-RAID hard drive.
>
> I have 7.4-STABLE working on several multi-CPU Opteron systems, but they are
> all Tyan motherboards. Are Rioworks/Arima still in busine
Hi,
On Sunday 24 April 2011 00:37:52 Doug Hardie wrote:
>
> On 23 April 2011, at 03:04, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 23 April 2011 16:30:39 Doug Hardie wrote:
> >>
> >> On 23 April 2011, at 02:20, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I only can tell what I do when a machine does not
I haven't seen a verbose dmesg output booting from a non-RAID hard drive.
I have 7.4-STABLE working on several multi-CPU Opteron systems, but they
are all Tyan motherboards. Are Rioworks/Arima still in business?
Rather than use the on-board controllers I've just bought some of th
On 23 April 2011, at 03:04, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 23 April 2011 16:30:39 Doug Hardie wrote:
>>
>> On 23 April 2011, at 02:20, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>>>
>>> I only can tell what I do when a machine does not boot from the
>>> installation media: I plug the disk into anot
Hi,
On Saturday 23 April 2011 16:30:39 Doug Hardie wrote:
>
> On 23 April 2011, at 02:20, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> >
> > I only can tell what I do when a machine does not boot from the
> > installation media: I plug the disk into another machine, install the
> > generic kernel, edit /etc and p
On 23 April 2011, at 02:20, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I only can tell what I do when a machine does not boot from the installation
> media: I plug the disk into another machine, install the generic kernel, edit
> /etc and put it back.
>
> If this does not work, it will be hard.
That w
Hi,
I only can tell what I do when a machine does not boot from the installation
media: I plug the disk into another machine, install the generic kernel, edit
/etc and put it back.
If this does not work, it will be hard.
Erich
On Saturday 23 April 2011 14:25:13 Doug Hardie wrote:
>
> On 22 A
On 22 April 2011, at 23:46, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 23 April 2011 12:57:32 Doug Hardie wrote:
>>
>> On 22 April 2011, at 21:28, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>>
>>> It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true?
>>>
>> I am not sure. The last message is the timest
Hi,
On Saturday 23 April 2011 12:57:32 Doug Hardie wrote:
>
> On 22 April 2011, at 21:28, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>
> > It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true?
> >
> I am not sure. The last message is the timestamp from the original
> distribution build. Then is a line wi
On 22 April 2011, at 21:28, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does the loader start?
>
> It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true?
>
> Erich
I am not sure. The last message is the timestamp from the original
distribution build. Then is a line with just the '/' character t
Hi,
does the loader start?
It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true?
Erich
On Saturday 23 April 2011 05:38:41 Doug Hardie wrote:
> I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to install
> 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up an
On 22 April 2011, at 16:37, Michael Ross wrote:
> Am 23.04.2011, 00:38 Uhr, schrieb Doug Hardie :
>
>> I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to install
>> 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up and running
>> on it before, but I had to remove
Am 23.04.2011, 00:38 Uhr, schrieb Doug Hardie :
I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to
install 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up
and running on it before, but I had to remove a drive and do the install
on another computer. That wor
I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to install 8.2
on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up and running on it
before, but I had to remove a drive and do the install on another computer.
That worked, but now I need to use the built in RAID hardware
doing
it on the actual server.
I created the mfsBSD image using the 8.2-RELEASE i386 ISO and wrote it
to the boot drive using dd as mentioned in the documentation which went
well with no errors, however the virtual machine hangs upon booting. It
gets as far as showing the FreeBSD boot loader men
On Wed,16-03-2011 [16:25:54], Ilya Kazakevich wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> I configured boot0 to my ar0 and tried to boot from it. It freezes.
> I use RAID10 and Intel-ICH7.
>
> Looks like I've faced with some other troubles..
>
> Ilya.
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:05 PM, mcoyles
> wrote:
>
> > >T
My boot0 freezes. I found discussion where guy told that extipl works fine
but boot0 not because extipl uses LBA instead of CHS and some raids do not
support CHS.
It is new to me that BIOS allows LBA but I will try extipl now.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:11 PM, b. f. wrote:
> > This is probably mo
> This is probably more PC-specific than freebsd-specific question. I have
> intel firmware raid. OS needs drivers to work with it. FreeBSD sees it as
> ar0, so it has drivers.
> But I want my OS to be installed on this drive and boot from it. It is not
> good idea, but I really want to do it:)
> I
Thank you.
I configured boot0 to my ar0 and tried to boot from it. It freezes.
I use RAID10 and Intel-ICH7.
Looks like I've faced with some other troubles..
Ilya.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:05 PM, mcoyles
wrote:
> >This is probably more PC-specific than freebsd-specific question. I have
> >inte
Hello,
This is probably more PC-specific than freebsd-specific question. I have
intel firmware raid. OS needs drivers to work with it. FreeBSD sees it as
ar0, so it has drivers.
But I want my OS to be installed on this drive and boot from it. It is not
good idea, but I really want to do it:)
Is it
Doug Hardie wrote:
> The motherboard doesn't recognize a USB stick for booting
> unfortunately. The motherboard manual is dated 2006 so
> I think its just too old for that.
This
http://www.plop.at/
can be loaded off just about any device the system _can_ boot from,
and stands
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:10:32 -0600, Daniel Staal wrote:
Arima NM46X with dual AMD Opteron processors.
My dual Opteron S2895 board does this as well. Latest BIOS and everything.
I can get it to boot off of a flash drive but I can't get it to boot off a
CDROM. FreeBSD just disagrees with it
king since it has some form of Linux installed on the disks and that
> boots and seems to run. However, I have tried booting from CD 8.2 and
> 8.0. using Disk 1 and Repair disks (AMD64 and i386). They all die just
> after the first stage loader. I get the system version line and then the
&
boots and seems to run.
However, I have tried booting from CD 8.2 and 8.0. using Disk 1 and Repair
disks (AMD64 and i386). They all die just after the first stage loader. I get
the system version line and then the spinner stops dead. The CD is an external
USB unit and its left running. The m
gt; > Can't you boot into fixit mode from installation media? That should
> > allow you to repair the boot blocks and make your system bootable again.
>
> sorry if i wasn't clear enough. my system works perfectly normal. all i
> want is to avoid running through the booting s
Robert Bonomi wrote:
> A non-ZFS boot drive results in immediate, _guaranteed_,
> down-time for replacement if/when it fails.
Not if it is gmirrored and hot-pluggable.
___
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list
> Repairing a failed disk in a ZFS boot pool requires a human to remember to
> look for directions in an unusual place, and then follow them correctly.
That's why I generally prefer to boot off hardware RAID 1 in
situations where reliability is critical. There are too many fiddly
unkno
--As of February 19, 2011 2:12:20 PM -0600, Robert Bonomi is alleged to
have said:
A non-ZFS boot drive results in immediate, _guaranteed_, down-time for
replacement if/when it fails.
A ZFS boot drive lets you replace the drive and *schedule* the down-time
(for a 'test' re-boot, to make *sure*
On 19/02/2011 15:35, Daniel Staal wrote:
> I'm still not clear on whether a ZFS-only system will boot with a failed
> drive in the root ZFS pool.
If it's a mirror, raidz or similar pool type with resilience, then yes,
it certainly will boot with a failed drive. Been there, done that.
Che
> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:35:35 -0500
> From: Daniel Staal
> Subject: Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD
>
[[.. sneck ..]]
>
> Basically, if a ZFS boot drive fails, you are likely to get the following
> scenario:
> 1) 'What do I need to do to replace a disk in th
doing a 'zpool
> replace'.)
>
> Is that box still bootable? (It's still running, but could it *boot*?)
>
> Extend further: If *all* the original drives are replaced (not at the same
> time, obviously) and rebuilt/resilvered using the ZFS utilities, is the
> bo
On 19 February 2011 15:35, Daniel Staal wrote:
> --As of February 19, 2011 2:44:38 PM +, Matthew Seaman is alleged to
> have said:
>
>> Umm... a sufficiently forgetful sysadmin can break *anything*. This
>> isn't really a fair test: forgetting to write the boot blocks onto a
>> disk could sim
--As of February 19, 2011 2:44:38 PM +, Matthew Seaman is alleged to
have said:
Umm... a sufficiently forgetful sysadmin can break *anything*. This
isn't really a fair test: forgetting to write the boot blocks onto a
disk could similarly render a UFS based system unbootable. That's why
s
On 19/02/2011 13:18, Daniel Staal wrote:
>> Why wouldn't it be? The configuration in the Wiki article sets aside a
>> small freebsd-boot partition on each drive, and the instructions tell
>> you to install boot blocks as part of that partitioning process. You
>> would have to repeat those steps w
; for the all-drives replaced case, as I suspected:
You would need to have repeated the partitioning manually. (And not
letting ZFS handle it.)
If not, what's the minimum needed to support booting from another disk,
and using the ZFS filesystem for everything else?
This situation is desc
llow you to repair the boot blocks and make your system bootable again.
sorry if i wasn't clear enough. my system works perfectly normal. all i want
is to avoid running through the booting stage 3 (i.e. running /boot/loader),
because i want to speed up the boot time.
cheers.
alex
>
>
On 19/02/2011 02:47, Alexander Best wrote:
> but that won't work. i get some numbers and then it says:
> btx halted or something like that.
Can't you boot into fixit mode from installation media? That should
allow you to repair the boot blocks and make your system bootable again.
Cheers,
you more space without *requiring* the system be rebooted).
> If not, what's the minimum needed to support booting from another disk,
> and using the ZFS filesystem for everything else?
This situation is described in the Boot ZFS system from UFS article
here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZF
1 - 100 of 1100 matches
Mail list logo
