Re: Difference in slice numbering FreeBSD 4.x vs. 6.x?
It has been a long time, but today was a rainy day without plans, so now I'm following up on an old thread. On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:02:23 -0300 Giovanni P. Tirloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've moved hard disks around many times and this has never happened. Can you send us `fdisk /dev/ad0` from 4.11 and 6.0 so we can spot anything not normal ? I didn't have a live CD or fixit floppy at hand, so I just used the fdisk menu in systinstall (on the 6.1-RELEASE / i386 cd). It says that there are two slices: ad0s3 ad0s4 Does it still boot in the machine after we've booted in the laptop ? Nope, it acts the same there - the boot manager says F3 and F4 aout slices to boot from. Unfortunately, the only slice it will boot is F3, which now is FreeBSD 4.11. Alas, the machine used for testing is a amd64 one, and it will not boot 4.11 completely - it panics with a fatal trap 9 after a ad0 READ timeout and ata0: resetting devices .. I'll guess that it is something I have done, even if I can't figure out what. For the record, I just wiped all slices on the hard drive, installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (i386) on it, put it back into the laptop and it boots with no problem. The PC card controller in the laptop is still not detected, but that's another story. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Difference in slice numbering FreeBSD 4.x vs. 6.x?
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: Hi, Yes, this is a strange question; is the slice numbering in FreeBSD 4.x different from that in FreeBSD 6.x? I'm talking about for fdisk(8), boot(8) and loader(8). Background: I have this old laptop (a HP OmniBook 5500CT). I replaced the tiny (1.2GB) hard drive in it with a 20GB hard drive. I installed FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE on it, using fdisk to partition the disk in two. 4.11-R installed on slice1, ie. root on /dev/ad0s1a. All was well. Now, the story: Then I decided to install FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on the second half of the disk, but it didn't work out of the box. To make a long story short, it turned out that the PCCard controller / slots wasn't detected properly, and as this laptop doesn't have a cd-rom drive, I just took out the hard drive, mounted a 2.5-to-3.5 inchadapter on it and put it into another machine. This machine had a cd-rom, and it installed FreeBSD 6.0-R on the second slice without a problem. I even testedt that it would boot both slices (4.11-R or 6.0-R) on that machine, it did. On this machine, 4.11-R was on slice 1, and 6.0-R on slice 2. Now, I took the hard drive out and put it into the laptop again. Mahor problem - it wouldn't boot at all. A not-so-quick boot with the floppies (3 floppies for boot, plus the fixit floppy) later, I ran fdisk on ad0. Much to my surprise, the twor FreeBSD installations had now moved to slice 3 and slice 4. 4.11-RELEASE on slice 3 and 6.0-RELEASE on slice 4. I am utterly amazed by this. What has happened? I've moved hard disks around many times and this has never happened. Can you send us `fdisk /dev/ad0` from 4.11 and 6.0 so we can spot anything not normal ? Does it still boot in the machine after we've booted in the laptop ? -- Giovanni P. Tirloni http://blog.tirloni.org ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Difference in slice numbering FreeBSD 4.x vs. 6.x?
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:02:23 -0300 Giovanni P. Tirloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've moved hard disks around many times and this has never happened. This is a first for me also. :-) Can you send us `fdisk /dev/ad0` from 4.11 and 6.0 so we can spot anything not normal ? Hard to do, I'll have to boot with boot floppies + fixit floppy. I'll do that and send output. Does it still boot in the machine after we've booted in the laptop ? It's on my list of things to test, haven't done that yet. -- Later, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Difference in slice numbering FreeBSD 4.x vs. 6.x?
Hi, Yes, this is a strange question; is the slice numbering in FreeBSD 4.x different from that in FreeBSD 6.x? I'm talking about for fdisk(8), boot(8) and loader(8). Background: I have this old laptop (a HP OmniBook 5500CT). I replaced the tiny (1.2GB) hard drive in it with a 20GB hard drive. I installed FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE on it, using fdisk to partition the disk in two. 4.11-R installed on slice1, ie. root on /dev/ad0s1a. All was well. Now, the story: Then I decided to install FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on the second half of the disk, but it didn't work out of the box. To make a long story short, it turned out that the PCCard controller / slots wasn't detected properly, and as this laptop doesn't have a cd-rom drive, I just took out the hard drive, mounted a 2.5-to-3.5 inchadapter on it and put it into another machine. This machine had a cd-rom, and it installed FreeBSD 6.0-R on the second slice without a problem. I even testedt that it would boot both slices (4.11-R or 6.0-R) on that machine, it did. On this machine, 4.11-R was on slice 1, and 6.0-R on slice 2. Now, I took the hard drive out and put it into the laptop again. Mahor problem - it wouldn't boot at all. A not-so-quick boot with the floppies (3 floppies for boot, plus the fixit floppy) later, I ran fdisk on ad0. Much to my surprise, the twor FreeBSD installations had now moved to slice 3 and slice 4. 4.11-RELEASE on slice 3 and 6.0-RELEASE on slice 4. I am utterly amazed by this. What has happened? -- Yours, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
