From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 27 09:20:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16D316A41F for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:20:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jaapb@kerguelen.org) Received: from societe.kerguelen.org (catv9079.extern.kun.nl [131.174.119.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB4343D69 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:20:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jaapb@kerguelen.org) Received: from societe.kerguelen.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by societe.kerguelen.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6R9Ku64015664; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:20:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (jaapb@localhost) by societe.kerguelen.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6R9KtX9005474; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:20:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:20:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Jaap Boender To: "Gary W. Swearingen" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange bootloader problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:21:00 -0000 [Sorry about the previous message, I hit the wrong key. X and C are very close together...] >> Since you changed your BIOS, I'm suspecting something fishy with the >> BIOS settings for disk geometry, like not LBA or something, but you've >> probably already checked the BIOS setup... I hadn't thought about the disk geometry, but I have looked at the BIOS, yes. Unfortunately, it being a DELL BIOS, there weren't many useful settings I could change (and 'disk geometry' wasn't even mentioned...) >> Read the boot(8) manpage paragraph starting with "However," which >> says how to by-pass "/boot/loader" and maybe try that. >> >> Also, loader(8) manpage has a boot_verbose variable that might help. I've just tried them both, but Grub launches the loader immediately, without any possibility for bypassing. The FreeBSD boot manager just beeps when I try to boot FreeBSD (presumably due to the same problem). I've also tried loading the kernel directly from Grub, but the first time this resulted in a lock-up just after recognizing the ad0 device - and the second and later times I didn't get even that far. Nonetheless, the disk geometry avenue looks promising. I'll see if I can get anywhere using that. Resetting to defaults apparently isn't enough... Thanks, Jaap Boender -- "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." -- Ambrose Bierce