Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:57:11 -0700 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen), rsh.lists@comcast.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?) Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20050827145506.07b6c490@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <ov3bovxdag.bov@mail.opusnet.com> References: <431064F5.2020508@comcast.net> <6.2.3.4.2.20050827125557.05abd7d0@cobalt.antimatter.net> <4310D765.8030403@comcast.net> <6.2.3.4.2.20050827141554.04e436d0@cobalt.antimatter.net> <ov3bovxdag.bov@mail.opusnet.com>
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At 02:47 PM 8/27/2005, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: >Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> writes: > > > I doubt there's nothing wrong with the MBR per se, but if it's > looking in the wrong place for the third stage loader > > you'll see exactly the problem you have. > >Where "it's" probably refers to "boot code", not to the MBR, which >doesn't look for anything except the confusingly-named "first-stage" >boot loader (same as /boot/boot1) in the first sector of your 4th >primary partition. Then that loads the second-stage boot loader (same >as /boot/boot2) which gives the "boot:" prompt after failing to run >/boot/loader and failing to run a kernel. > >It seems that finding boot1 and boot2 is possible with bad geometry, >but finding /boot/loader or the kernel is not. ??? The restriction on where stage 2 finds the stage 3 loader, /boot/loader, is that it must be on the 'a' partition. Something like: /dev/ad0s1a If it's somewhere else, like /dev/ad0s1e, then you'll land at the boot: prompt every time. -Glenn >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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