From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 08:06:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB08816A41C for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 08:06:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AFAA43D53 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 08:06:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 33171 invoked by uid 1005); 9 Jun 2005 08:06:23 -0000 Received: from rainer@ultra-secure.de by bsd.ultra-secure.de by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamdscan: 0.85. spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(213.196.191.65):. Processed in 0.031016 secs); 09 Jun 2005 08:06:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.179?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@213.196.191.65) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 9 Jun 2005 08:06:23 -0000 Message-ID: <42A7F87B.5000308@ultra-secure.de> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:06:19 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Bush References: <17063.34823.866303.74727@roam.psg.com> In-Reply-To: <17063.34823.866303.74727@roam.psg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: problem with boot0cfg on a twe? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:06:26 -0000 Randy Bush wrote: >very -current > ># boot0cfg -B -d 1 -s 1 -v twed0 >boot0cfg: write_mbr: /dev/twed0: No such file or directory > ># boot0cfg -B -d 1 -s 1 -v twe0 >boot0cfg: read /dev/twe0: Operation not supported by device > ># ls -l /dev/twed0 >crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 76 Jun 8 23:32 /dev/twed0 > ># df >Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/twed0s1a 253678 67506 165878 29% / >devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev >/dev/twed0s1d 126702 7682 108884 7% /var >/dev/twed0s1e 126702 192 116374 0% /var/spool >/dev/twed0s1f 28341292 2393116 23680874 9% /usr >/dev/twed0s1g 4058062 54 3733364 0% /usr/home >/dev/twed0s1h 63256 858 57338 1% /root >/dev/twed1s1e 961291472 536501578 347886578 61% /data >procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc >/dev/md0 126702 14 116552 0% /tmp > >and the current man page for boot0cfg implies that i can install > boot0 - crt only > boot0sio - sio only > >i have many systems with /boot.config having -P that seem to be >willing to go either way. what am i not understanding? > > > > I think the problem is that you can't write onto the disk when you have it in use (for 5.4 at least). It just gives the wrong error-message. I had the same problem - booting from CD usually lets you apply boot0cfg. But my real problem is that I can only boot the PC from the SuSE 9.2 CD ! (2*120GB as RAID1). When I boot from the array, I get a kind of endless loop of pre-boot panic or just an endless beep at the F1-promt, depending if I have booteasy or not. When I boot from the SuSE9.2 CD, it will recognize that I have a Unix-OS already installed and boot from HD as default. That always works. I have 3 identical PCs with this problem. cheers, Rainer