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]: [system
... 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
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
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 managed to
On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com 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
On 27 June 2013 11:11, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Warren Block wrote:
Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here:
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
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,
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 June 2013 11:11, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Warren Block wrote:
Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here:
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
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:
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 gpart
On Mar 5, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Doug Poland d...@polands.org 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
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 (AKA gpt/disk0). I want to make
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
.
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/loader.conf ?
You have zfs_enable=yes in /etc/rc.conf ?
You have zpool set bootfs=rpool rpool
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: integrity
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, if a
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 bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The
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
Doug Hardie wrote:
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org 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
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 bc...@lafn.org 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
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 bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on.
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org 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
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org 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 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 bc...@lafn.org 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
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
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Rick Miller vmil...@hostileadmin.com 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
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
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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
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
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Hi Dan,
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org 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?
In the last paragraph of our
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 secondary
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 - mfsBSD 8.2
. 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't know the boot
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 with the 8.x
:
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
F2 FreeBSD
F3 FreeBSD
However, when pressing F3
On Sat, 03-Nov-2012 at 23:34:48 +0100, jb wrote:
Andre Albsmeier Andre.Albsmeier at 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
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
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 boot1 always loads
the first active FreeBSD slice
Andre Albsmeier Andre.Albsmeier at 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
jb jb.1234abcd at 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.
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 pair:
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 system by booting with a CD
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
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:32:10 +
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com 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
On 01/28/2012 08:54 AM, Bas Smeelen wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:32:10 +
Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com 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
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:
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
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
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.
From: Maxime-Etienne de Gier maxime.etie...@gmx.com
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
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 boot up
On Dec 17, 2011 9:04 AM, Maxime-Etienne de Gier maxime.etie...@gmx.com
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?
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
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 drive
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 with just
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 timestamp from the
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
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 works,
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 put it
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 another machine,
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 the LSI
300
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 boot from the
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 business?
I believe so
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
Am 23.04.2011, 00:38 Uhr, schrieb Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org:
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
On 22 April 2011, at 16:37, Michael Ross wrote:
Am 23.04.2011, 00:38 Uhr, schrieb Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org:
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
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 and
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 that
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 menu
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
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
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
mcoy...@horbury.wakefield.sch.ukwrote:
This is probably more PC-specific than
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
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. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote:
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org 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
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 motherboard
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
spinner stops dead. The CD
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:10:32 -0600, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net 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
? 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 stage 3 (i.e. running
/boot/loader), because i want to speed up the boot time.
I don't
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/RootOnZFS/UFSBoot
I use this sort of setup for one system where the zpool has too many
drives in it for the BIOS
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,
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
Cheers,
Matthew
--
Dr Matthew J
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 described in the Boot ZFS system from UFS article
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 when you
--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
On 19 February 2011 15:35, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net 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
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
box still bootable?
If not, what's the minimum needed to support booting from another disk
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:35:35 -0500
From: Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net
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 the ZFS pool?'
2) 'Oh
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.
--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
in booting off software RAID. Even if you do
everything else right, the BIOS may refuse to look beyond the failed
drive and boot off the good one. I save the software RAID for data
spindles (which I tend to keep separate from the boot/OS spindles,
anyway.)
2-port 3ware cards are relatively inexpensive
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com 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.
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, obviously) and rebuilt/resilvered using the ZFS utilities, is the
box still bootable?
If not, what's the minimum needed to support booting from another disk,
and using the ZFS filesystem for everything else?
Daniel T. Staal
, obviously) and rebuilt/resilvered using the ZFS utilities, is the
box still bootable?
If not, what's the minimum needed to support booting from another disk,
and using the ZFS filesystem for everything else?
Daniel T. Staal
Sorry for the dupe, I did send them about 8 hours apart...
Daniel T. Staal
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hi there,
is it still possible to boot a kernel directly from stage 1 and 2 and thus
bypass loader(8)? this is my disk layout:
= 34 488394988 ada0 GPT (233G) [CORRUPT]
34128 1 freebsd-boot (64K)
162 16777216 2 freebsd-swap (8.0G)
16777378
.
Booting another VM that already existed showed the same problem -
/dev/ad0 exists but /dev/acd0 doesn't and there's no sign of it during
the device detection part of the boot.
Anyone else seeing this problem?
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