From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 21:17:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E621A1065673 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:17:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@violetlan.net) Received: from mail.violetlan.net (mail.violetlan.net [80.81.242.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2AA68FC16 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:17:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@violetlan.net) Received: from mail.violetlan.net (mail.violetlan.net [10.0.100.111]) by mail.violetlan.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2D81143C; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:22:31 +0100 (BST) Received: from www.violetlan.net (mbali.violetlan.net [10.0.100.150]) by mail.violetlan.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C90A1143B; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:22:31 +0100 (BST) Received: from 217.45.165.129 (SquirrelMail authenticated user freebsd@violetlan.net) by www.violetlan.net with HTTP; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:17:15 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <59872.217.45.165.129.1224796635.squirrel@www.violetlan.net> In-Reply-To: <20081023225735.706f4f2b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <64584.217.45.165.129.1224787913.squirrel@www.violetlan.net> <54609.217.45.165.129.1224794423.squirrel@www.violetlan.net> <20081023225735.706f4f2b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:17:15 +0100 (BST) From: "Reinhold" To: "Torfinn Ingolfsen" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: After an update stable doesn't boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:17:17 -0000 On Thu, October 23, 2008 21:57, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > Some quick checks: > - use fdisk (for example: fdisk ad0) to check if the correct slice is > active - use boot0cfg -v to check the bootcode of the disk you are booting > from > Hi Thanks for getting back to me. Here is the info I have from fdisk and boot0cfg # fdisk ad12 ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=310101 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=310101 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 312576642 (152625 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: and from # boot0cfg -v ad12 # flag start chs type end chs offset size 1 0x80 0: 1: 1 0xa5 1023:254:63 63 312576642 version=1.0 drive=0x80 mask=0xf ticks=182 options=packet,update,nosetdrv default_selection=F1 (Slice 1)