Re: no boot/loader
At 07:11 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: Excellent! I will try this among the other things mentioned when I get back home. Final note, what would this BIOS MBR setting look like normally, or an idea of where to look in the CMOS. THanks A lot of BIOS's have a setting for boot virus prevention, or it will just be to enable or disable the boot area being written. Most BIOS's have just a few pages of settings, so look through them all. -Derek Derek Ragona wrote: > > At 07:00 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: > >>Check things? Which things should I be checking for? And where should I be >>checking them, to be more specific, which optoin should I choose within >>sysinstall to check the things? >> >>I am reading on another forum the installation is incorrect and to try >>again, however I have tried many times. Do you think the minimun install is >>not enough to allow for bootup? > > Before you exit sysinstall, go to the emergency shell I believe alt+F4 > will > get you there. Then do: > mount > > The output from mount will show where the new filesystems are mounted. > You > can check that /boot is populated and that you have a kernel in > /boot/kernel/kernel. To check those you'd type: > > ls -al [fill in the root mount point]/boot > > and > > ls -al [fill in the root mount point]/boot/kernel/kernel > > Check your BIOS settings. It is likely you have a setting in the BIOS > preventing the boot area being written. > > -Derek > > > > >>Derek Ragona wrote: >> > >> > At 04:42 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: >> > >> >>No /boot/loader >> >>no /boot/kernel/kernel >> >> >> >>I isntalled FreeBSD 7.0 with the defaults for partiioning. I am using >> one >> >>hard drive in which I followed with the ASQ (auto, tag for boot, quit) >> >>command. I choose the standard boot loader option. I installed through >> the >> >>master freebsd site via ethernet. Upon the congratulation screen is >> asks >>for >> >>a reboot, and to remove the boot disk, I resart to the error message >>above. >> >>I believe it is because a boot loader is not installed, however, it >> should >> >>be. Is it not in the set up, it is one of the first steps. >> >> >> >>Following the errors I am in put into a boot prompt: >> >> >> >>boot: >> >> >> >>Are there any commands I can run from this prompt to manually boot? How >>can >> >>I make the boot work? Will I need to install my own boot loader? How >> can I >> >>install a manul boot loader? How can I check if the boot loader is >> >>installed, but just not loading properly? >> > >> > You would do well do try the install again, but check things BEFORE you >> > allow sysinstall to exit and reboot. Also check that your BIOS has any >> > anti-virus settings not allowing the boot area of the hard disk to be >> > written, turned off. >> > >> > -Derek >> > >> > -- >> > This message has been scanned for viruses and >> > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> > believed to be clean. >> > >> > ___ >> > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> > >> > >> >>-- >>View this message in context: >>http://www.nabble.com/no-boot-loader-tp18899421p18900779.html >>Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >>___ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> >>-- >>This message has been scanned for viruses and >>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >>believed to be clean. > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/no-boot-loader-tp18899421p18900844.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: no boot/loader
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:00:54 -0700 (PDT), acmeinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check things? Which things should I be checking for? And where should I be > checking them, to be more specific, which optoin should I choose within > sysinstall to check the things? Be sure to write your settings. In the partition editor, make sure your desired FreeBSD slice is marked "active" and ensure you have selected to install the standard MBR loader. (If you want to be able to boot into more than one OS, you need to install the boot manager.) Afterwards, when creating the partitions within the slice, I assume you've done everything correctly, else no installation success would be able to happen. > I am reading on another forum the installation is incorrect and to try > again, however I have tried many times. There seems to be something you've missed, but at this point, I can't guess what it could be. > Do you think the minimun install is > not enough to allow for bootup? It is, if done correctly. To boot, a correct modification of the boot record is essential. As it has been mentioned, there are some BIOS variants that prohibit any modification of these hard disk areas. But that does not seem to be the problem. The message you gave seems to indicat that something is already in the boot area, but the loader itself cannot be run. The loader is placed into your FreeBSD slice (partition), it resides in /boot; if started, the loader invokes the kernel from /boot/kernel, but that's to be happing after you could solve the problem in question. This is what yould happen, summarized: 1. BIOS runs loader found in MBR (standard loader) 2. Standard loader runs /boot/loader 3. /boot/loader runs /boot/kernel/kernel (GENERIC) 4. Kernel initializes system, runs rc script 5. rc script controls system startup 6. System is up and running While number 1 is connected to the hard disk "infront of" any partitions, numbers 2 and 3 depend on the FreeBSD's slice and its partitions (usually /dev/ad0s1a). If the required content of this partition is not present, the error you mentioned is completely understandable. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: no boot/loader
Excellent! I will try this among the other things mentioned when I get back home. Final note, what would this BIOS MBR setting look like normally, or an idea of where to look in the CMOS. THanks Derek Ragona wrote: > > At 07:00 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: > >>Check things? Which things should I be checking for? And where should I be >>checking them, to be more specific, which optoin should I choose within >>sysinstall to check the things? >> >>I am reading on another forum the installation is incorrect and to try >>again, however I have tried many times. Do you think the minimun install is >>not enough to allow for bootup? > > Before you exit sysinstall, go to the emergency shell I believe alt+F4 > will > get you there. Then do: > mount > > The output from mount will show where the new filesystems are mounted. > You > can check that /boot is populated and that you have a kernel in > /boot/kernel/kernel. To check those you'd type: > > ls -al [fill in the root mount point]/boot > > and > > ls -al [fill in the root mount point]/boot/kernel/kernel > > Check your BIOS settings. It is likely you have a setting in the BIOS > preventing the boot area being written. > > -Derek > > > > >>Derek Ragona wrote: >> > >> > At 04:42 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: >> > >> >>No /boot/loader >> >>no /boot/kernel/kernel >> >> >> >>I isntalled FreeBSD 7.0 with the defaults for partiioning. I am using >> one >> >>hard drive in which I followed with the ASQ (auto, tag for boot, quit) >> >>command. I choose the standard boot loader option. I installed through >> the >> >>master freebsd site via ethernet. Upon the congratulation screen is >> asks >>for >> >>a reboot, and to remove the boot disk, I resart to the error message >>above. >> >>I believe it is because a boot loader is not installed, however, it >> should >> >>be. Is it not in the set up, it is one of the first steps. >> >> >> >>Following the errors I am in put into a boot prompt: >> >> >> >>boot: >> >> >> >>Are there any commands I can run from this prompt to manually boot? How >>can >> >>I make the boot work? Will I need to install my own boot loader? How >> can I >> >>install a manul boot loader? How can I check if the boot loader is >> >>installed, but just not loading properly? >> > >> > You would do well do try the install again, but check things BEFORE you >> > allow sysinstall to exit and reboot. Also check that your BIOS has any >> > anti-virus settings not allowing the boot area of the hard disk to be >> > written, turned off. >> > >> > -Derek >> > >> > -- >> > This message has been scanned for viruses and >> > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> > believed to be clean. >> > >> > ___ >> > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> > >> > >> >>-- >>View this message in context: >>http://www.nabble.com/no-boot-loader-tp18899421p18900779.html >>Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >>___ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> >>-- >>This message has been scanned for viruses and >>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >>believed to be clean. > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/no-boot-loader-tp18899421p18900844.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: no boot/loader
At 07:00 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: Check things? Which things should I be checking for? And where should I be checking them, to be more specific, which optoin should I choose within sysinstall to check the things? I am reading on another forum the installation is incorrect and to try again, however I have tried many times. Do you think the minimun install is not enough to allow for bootup? Before you exit sysinstall, go to the emergency shell I believe alt+F4 will get you there. Then do: mount The output from mount will show where the new filesystems are mounted. You can check that /boot is populated and that you have a kernel in /boot/kernel/kernel. To check those you'd type: ls -al [fill in the root mount point]/boot and ls -al [fill in the root mount point]/boot/kernel/kernel Check your BIOS settings. It is likely you have a setting in the BIOS preventing the boot area being written. -Derek Derek Ragona wrote: > > At 04:42 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: > >>No /boot/loader >>no /boot/kernel/kernel >> >>I isntalled FreeBSD 7.0 with the defaults for partiioning. I am using one >>hard drive in which I followed with the ASQ (auto, tag for boot, quit) >>command. I choose the standard boot loader option. I installed through the >>master freebsd site via ethernet. Upon the congratulation screen is asks for >>a reboot, and to remove the boot disk, I resart to the error message above. >>I believe it is because a boot loader is not installed, however, it should >>be. Is it not in the set up, it is one of the first steps. >> >>Following the errors I am in put into a boot prompt: >> >>boot: >> >>Are there any commands I can run from this prompt to manually boot? How can >>I make the boot work? Will I need to install my own boot loader? How can I >>install a manul boot loader? How can I check if the boot loader is >>installed, but just not loading properly? > > You would do well do try the install again, but check things BEFORE you > allow sysinstall to exit and reboot. Also check that your BIOS has any > anti-virus settings not allowing the boot area of the hard disk to be > written, turned off. > > -Derek > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/no-boot-loader-tp18899421p18900779.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: no boot/loader
Check things? Which things should I be checking for? And where should I be checking them, to be more specific, which optoin should I choose within sysinstall to check the things? I am reading on another forum the installation is incorrect and to try again, however I have tried many times. Do you think the minimun install is not enough to allow for bootup? Derek Ragona wrote: > > At 04:42 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: > >>No /boot/loader >>no /boot/kernel/kernel >> >>I isntalled FreeBSD 7.0 with the defaults for partiioning. I am using one >>hard drive in which I followed with the ASQ (auto, tag for boot, quit) >>command. I choose the standard boot loader option. I installed through the >>master freebsd site via ethernet. Upon the congratulation screen is asks for >>a reboot, and to remove the boot disk, I resart to the error message above. >>I believe it is because a boot loader is not installed, however, it should >>be. Is it not in the set up, it is one of the first steps. >> >>Following the errors I am in put into a boot prompt: >> >>boot: >> >>Are there any commands I can run from this prompt to manually boot? How can >>I make the boot work? Will I need to install my own boot loader? How can I >>install a manul boot loader? How can I check if the boot loader is >>installed, but just not loading properly? > > You would do well do try the install again, but check things BEFORE you > allow sysinstall to exit and reboot. Also check that your BIOS has any > anti-virus settings not allowing the boot area of the hard disk to be > written, turned off. > > -Derek > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/no-boot-loader-tp18899421p18900779.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: no boot/loader
At 04:42 PM 8/8/2008, acmeinc wrote: No /boot/loader no /boot/kernel/kernel I isntalled FreeBSD 7.0 with the defaults for partiioning. I am using one hard drive in which I followed with the ASQ (auto, tag for boot, quit) command. I choose the standard boot loader option. I installed through the master freebsd site via ethernet. Upon the congratulation screen is asks for a reboot, and to remove the boot disk, I resart to the error message above. I believe it is because a boot loader is not installed, however, it should be. Is it not in the set up, it is one of the first steps. Following the errors I am in put into a boot prompt: boot: Are there any commands I can run from this prompt to manually boot? How can I make the boot work? Will I need to install my own boot loader? How can I install a manul boot loader? How can I check if the boot loader is installed, but just not loading properly? You would do well do try the install again, but check things BEFORE you allow sysinstall to exit and reboot. Also check that your BIOS has any anti-virus settings not allowing the boot area of the hard disk to be written, turned off. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
no boot/loader
No /boot/loader no /boot/kernel/kernel I isntalled FreeBSD 7.0 with the defaults for partiioning. I am using one hard drive in which I followed with the ASQ (auto, tag for boot, quit) command. I choose the standard boot loader option. I installed through the master freebsd site via ethernet. Upon the congratulation screen is asks for a reboot, and to remove the boot disk, I resart to the error message above. I believe it is because a boot loader is not installed, however, it should be. Is it not in the set up, it is one of the first steps. Following the errors I am in put into a boot prompt: boot: Are there any commands I can run from this prompt to manually boot? How can I make the boot work? Will I need to install my own boot loader? How can I install a manul boot loader? How can I check if the boot loader is installed, but just not loading properly? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/no-boot-loader-tp18899421p18899421.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
No /boot/loader
Hi, I installed FreeBSD 7.0-current snapshot [200710] on my laptop. I have two issues, of which second is major: 1. It could not find any X filesets 2. After rebooting, it tells me something like "No /boot/loader", and does not boot. I tried to google for #2, but found no solution. I am surely making a mistake somewhere, but am unable to figure out. Any help regarding this is much appreciated. Thanks! This laptop already had a FreeBSD slice, so I did no create new partitions inside it, but just mounted and formatted the existing ones. -Amarendra ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: no /boot/loader - after installation
At 02:06 PM 7/23/2007, John Clement wrote: So I got a copy of boot-only 6.2 onto cd and went back into the bios and changed a few options: LBA mode: off Multi-sector transfers: auto Fast PIO: auto 32 bit transfer mode: on Ultra DMA: auto then ran the 6.2 install using dangerously dedicated which went fine and then on reboot now it comes up with Not ufs no /boot/loader so a slightly different message now, but still no go anyone? - jc I've never used the boot-only version. So let me ask if you saw any issues with sysinstall? Did you partition the disk and did newfs run without error? Before you exit sysinstall you can check and see what is on the disks from the emergency shell on vtty4. You can do a mount command and see what and where things are mounted and do an ls on those filesystems. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: no /boot/loader - after installation
So I got a copy of boot-only 6.2 onto cd and went back into the bios and changed a few options: LBA mode: off Multi-sector transfers: auto Fast PIO: auto 32 bit transfer mode: on Ultra DMA: auto then ran the 6.2 install using dangerously dedicated which went fine and then on reboot now it comes up with Not ufs no /boot/loader so a slightly different message now, but still no go anyone? - jc On 20/07/07, John Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The burner's been playing up recently so I've just been using the copy of 6.1 I've got. Maybe I'll get a copy of 6.2 burnt at work to try after the weekend. The locked MBR hadn't occured to me, but having checked, unfortunately it wasn't that. So back to the drawing board. If anyone's got any other idea, I'de love to hear them! cheers -jc On 19/07/07, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 03:31 AM 7/19/2007, John Clement wrote: > > I'm installing 6.1 on an HP Vectra VL420, I've been in the BIOS to set > the > C/H/S as per what the install reports (I've tried an 80GB Seagate and a > 250GB WD), the install all seems to go fine. I've tried the FreeBSD > boot > manager, a standard MBR and even setting the disk as dedicated, but > regardless I end up with the same 'no /boot/loader' when it reboots. > > I suspect (and hope) I'm making a simple mistake, I just haven't seen > this > happen before. > > Thanks in advance!! > > > First you should try 6.2 which is the latest release. > > Check your BIOS that you are allowing to write to the boot area. Many > BIOS have a setting to not allow this to prevent a virus writing to the boot > area. > > -Derek > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and > is > believed to be clean. > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers <http://www.transtec.co.uk/> for > their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: no /boot/loader - after installation
The burner's been playing up recently so I've just been using the copy of 6.1 I've got. Maybe I'll get a copy of 6.2 burnt at work to try after the weekend. The locked MBR hadn't occured to me, but having checked, unfortunately it wasn't that. So back to the drawing board. If anyone's got any other idea, I'de love to hear them! cheers -jc On 19/07/07, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 03:31 AM 7/19/2007, John Clement wrote: I'm installing 6.1 on an HP Vectra VL420, I've been in the BIOS to set the C/H/S as per what the install reports (I've tried an 80GB Seagate and a 250GB WD), the install all seems to go fine. I've tried the FreeBSD boot manager, a standard MBR and even setting the disk as dedicated, but regardless I end up with the same 'no /boot/loader' when it reboots. I suspect (and hope) I'm making a simple mistake, I just haven't seen this happen before. Thanks in advance!! First you should try 6.2 which is the latest release. Check your BIOS that you are allowing to write to the boot area. Many BIOS have a setting to not allow this to prevent a virus writing to the boot area. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers <http://www.transtec.co.uk/> for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: no /boot/loader - after installation
At 03:31 AM 7/19/2007, John Clement wrote: I'm installing 6.1 on an HP Vectra VL420, I've been in the BIOS to set the C/H/S as per what the install reports (I've tried an 80GB Seagate and a 250GB WD), the install all seems to go fine. I've tried the FreeBSD boot manager, a standard MBR and even setting the disk as dedicated, but regardless I end up with the same 'no /boot/loader' when it reboots. I suspect (and hope) I'm making a simple mistake, I just haven't seen this happen before. Thanks in advance!! First you should try 6.2 which is the latest release. Check your BIOS that you are allowing to write to the boot area. Many BIOS have a setting to not allow this to prevent a virus writing to the boot area. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
no /boot/loader - after installation
I'm installing 6.1 on an HP Vectra VL420, I've been in the BIOS to set the C/H/S as per what the install reports (I've tried an 80GB Seagate and a 250GB WD), the install all seems to go fine. I've tried the FreeBSD boot manager, a standard MBR and even setting the disk as dedicated, but regardless I end up with the same 'no /boot/loader' when it reboots. I suspect (and hope) I'm making a simple mistake, I just haven't seen this happen before. Thanks in advance!! jc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
no /boot/loader error 16
hi I have an AMD Duron 700Mhz running FreeBSD 5.3. When I turn it on I get error 16 lba 287 error 16 lba 287 No /boot/loader I've found: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-March/081879.html but the instructions don't do anything. Help? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: No /boot/loader
Hi all. A little over a month ago I posted the following: > I just installed 4.9 on a 8 x 4.3GB SCSI disk AMI MegaRAID array (RAID 5, > 30GB). The card's a HP NetRAID (aka AMI/LSI Enterprise 1200 or Series > 428). I set up slices as I have previously with 30GB+ IDE drives: > > 1GBswap > 29GB/ > > Fdisk, label and the rest of install went fine, but on reboot I get the > following error: > > Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x21fc09f) > No /boot/loader > >>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel > boot: > > > If I hit enter, it spits out this error: > > > WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing! > > > and starts the boot process. After finding all the devices, including the > RAID controller (amr0) and the logical drive (amrd0), it displays a > 'mountroot>' prompt. If I give it the logical drive slice a: > (ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a) it finishes the boot. Over the last few days I've added some new drives in RAID0 configuration and installed 4.10-RELEASE, and had the identical problem. I got around the problem by doing two things: 1. Created a /boot.config containing "0:da(0,a)/kernel" After doing this, the boot2 stopped complaining about a missing /boot/loader. 2. Built a new kernel and defined ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:amrd0s1a\" Now I'm no longer prompted to specify the root slice. So things are good. My machine boots w/out interaction. But I'm still perplexed as to why it didn't before. If boot2 can find /kernel, why can't it find /boot/loader? I copied /boot/loader to / and changed /boot.config to '0:da(0,a)/loader' and whaddya know? It now runs the BTX loader properly. So what's going on? Can anyone answer this stumper? Thanks again, Brad (CC me please, I'm not subbed) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
