Re: Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot
I can confirm an issue posted Dec 3rd, freebsd-stable maillist, titled 4.9 install buglet. I experience this bug running the install (various configurations) 100% of the time. After install, after system reboot, the boot loader comes up with F1: FreeBSD, and reboots continually forever. To test, I made 3 installs without issue using 4.8. So first, I'd like to confirm the bug report, and ask the following. I'm running two systems with 4.9-STABLE and haven't seen this problem. I did see this kind of thing back in the 3.X days when my HD was not correctly detected by FreeBSD during an install. The solution was to create a small DOS partition on the HD and then do the install. I've done complete re-installs for 5.1-RELEASE on two other systems and haven't seen this, either. Mike Squires ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot
If you look at the archive at the time I origionally posted, you'll find some 4 others with the same issue. A resolution was posted. I had inquired on how the issue could get included in the erratta and got no reponse. The bug, erratta bit, and other issues with FreeBSD left me uninclined to move away from Linux towards BSD. We'll check back perhaps when 5 becomes stable. Michael L. Squires wrote: I can confirm an issue posted Dec 3rd, freebsd-stable maillist, titled 4.9 install buglet. I experience this bug running the install (various configurations) 100% of the time. After install, after system reboot, the boot loader comes up with F1: FreeBSD, and reboots continually forever. To test, I made 3 installs without issue using 4.8. So first, I'd like to confirm the bug report, and ask the following. I'm running two systems with 4.9-STABLE and haven't seen this problem. I did see this kind of thing back in the 3.X days when my HD was not correctly detected by FreeBSD during an install. The solution was to create a small DOS partition on the HD and then do the install. I've done complete re-installs for 5.1-RELEASE on two other systems and haven't seen this, either. Mike Squires ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 09:10:14AM -0400, Kevin Berrien wrote: I can confirm an issue posted Dec 3rd, freebsd-stable maillist, titled 4.9 install buglet. I experience this bug running the install (various configurations) 100% of the time. After install, after system reboot, the boot loader comes up with F1: FreeBSD, and reboots continually forever. To test, I made 3 installs without issue using 4.8. So first, I'd like to confirm the bug report, and ask the following. In his buglet post, Ian noted the following work around. Work around. Force write in label screen (or rewrite MBR and label post reboot) I just experienced this same bug after installing freebsd 4.9 on monday this week, though I don't remember seeing any message at all, it just rebooted automatically without me doing anything at all. The soulution I found was to boot using the live cd, go into fix-it mode and run disklabel -B /dev/ad0 to reinstall the mbr, and since then freebsd had been running perfectly and is now serving mail to 40+ people. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:400220fa260193583517191! -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, Kevin Berrien wrote: I can confirm an issue posted Dec 3rd, freebsd-stable maillist, titled 4.9 install buglet. I experience this bug running the install (various configurations) 100% of the time. After install, after system reboot, the boot loader comes up with F1: FreeBSD, and reboots continually forever. To test, I made 3 installs without issue using 4.8. So first, I'd like to confirm the bug report, and ask the following. Please qualify reboots continutally forever. It reboots after printing the F1: FreeBSD message, or after you press a key, or what? This sounds like a BIOS issue. boot0 uses only BIOS calls to do its work. Lots of problems like this are also caused by bad drive geometry. What is the partition layout on the disk(s) in the system? Hardware description? -- Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot
I've fixed the problem, but for the benefit of others... Please qualify reboots continutally forever. It reboots after printing the F1: FreeBSD message, or after you press a key, or what? Yes, hitting a key. I would suppose if I let it time out it'd do the same. This sounds like a BIOS issue. boot0 uses only BIOS calls to do its work. Lots of problems like this are also caused by bad drive geometry. 4.8 installs correctly 100%, 4.9 fails 100%. What is the partition layout on the disk(s) in the system? Hardware description? One of my old test boxes, on which I've install most everything in the past. Single partition, Micron/Intel mb, PII 300, SIS graphics, 4 gig ide, 256 ram. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot
Thanks to Stuart Barkley detailed suggestion: (From memory, YMMV) Reboot for the installation CD into sysinstall. Select Configure then Fdisk. In fdisk select W this will cause the MBR to be rewritten correctly (I always select the FreeBSD boot manager, I don't know if that is necessary). I was able to get my 4.9 to boot. Ian, That's three of us now. Maybe this should go in the errata? Obsolutely. As I said in my original posting. I'm re-evaluating BSD for the 2nd time, and I was inches away ending my evaluation with the concensus that BSD is not worth my time in 2004. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot
On 17 Apr 2018 09:10:14 -0400, Kevin Berrien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snip Have you tied installing with the corect date and year? I would guess the system will mislike the date and year in some way.. I know that it have if you are in the past.. (sysdate older than installfiles.) -- Heine Aarb [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot
I can confirm an issue posted Dec 3rd, freebsd-stable maillist, titled 4.9 install buglet. I experience this bug running the install (various configurations) 100% of the time. After install, after system reboot, the boot loader comes up with F1: FreeBSD, and reboots continually forever. To test, I made 3 installs without issue using 4.8. So first, I'd like to confirm the bug report, and ask the following. In his buglet post, Ian noted the following work around. Work around. Force write in label screen (or rewrite MBR and label post reboot) Looking at fdisk, and the label utility I see nothing option along these lines. Could someone explain to me what/how to do this? Has anyone else seen this apparently prevalent issue? Is a fix likely, or do these kind of things just slip by? I did not expect this from a 'stable' release. Unfortunately, I'm making my second attempt at evaluating FreeBSD (last time I used an active box - and got frustrated with bad ports, MySQL/BSD issues, and needed to get the box online, so I installed something that worked). I'm interested in BSD's lean-ness, and other aspects, as opposed to other nix'es. Needless to say, testing again using 4.9 this time hasn't been very impressive. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install bug - 4.9 stable - post install circular reboot
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 at 09:10 -0400, Kevin Berrien wrote: Check your system clock. Its way off. I can confirm an issue posted Dec 3rd, freebsd-stable maillist, titled 4.9 install buglet. I experience this bug running the install (various configurations) 100% of the time. After install, after system reboot, the boot loader comes up with F1: FreeBSD, and reboots continually forever. To test, I made 3 installs without issue using 4.8. So first, I'd like to confirm the bug report, and ask the following. I have also seen this problem on two of my systems when installing 4.9-RELEASE. In his buglet post, Ian noted the following work around. Work around. Force write in label screen (or rewrite MBR and label post reboot) Yes, I found this workaround also and it works for me. Looking at fdisk, and the label utility I see nothing option along these lines. Could someone explain to me what/how to do this? (From memory, YMMV) Reboot for the installation CD into sysinstall. Select Configure then Fdisk. In fdisk select W this will cause the MBR to be rewritten correctly (I always select the FreeBSD boot manager, I don't know if that is necessary). Has anyone else seen this apparently prevalent issue? Is a fix likely, or do these kind of things just slip by? I did not expect this from a 'stable' release. I'm not running stable so don't know if the problem is fixed there, or even if a fix in known. I'm using an ASUS P4B533-E motherboard with the original BIOS (Rev 1008 08/06/02). There is an updated BIOS available and I hope to be able to give it a try soon (it also fixes another minor problem I've seen: booting from floppy which doesn't work currently). Stuart -- I've never been lost; I was once bewildered for three days, but never lost! -- Daniel Boone ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
