From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 15:58:56 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 ADDCA16A41F for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:58:56 +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 1C31B43D45 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:58:55 +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 j6QFwrr0027581 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:58:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (jaapb@localhost) by societe.kerguelen.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6QFwqkF025067 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:58:53 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:58:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Jaap Boender To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: 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: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:58:56 -0000 Hi all, Well, here's one for the books. I've got a Dell Latitude D610, and yesterday I upgraded the BIOS to its newest version (A04). This worked nicely, but after the upgrade, the third stage bootloader won't boot the kernel anymore. I can get to the boot loader from grub, but then it says 'can't find kernel' and that's it. If I try a ls it says 'no such file or directory' - incidentally, the file system itself is okay, if I boot from a fixit CD with -a and use the hard disk as the root partition, it all works fine. I've tried installing FreeBSD from scratch on another partition, with the same result. The only thing that goes wrong is /boot/loader not being able to load the kernel. Well, that and grub not being able to boot the kernel directly, but that might very well just be Grub... So now I'm stumped. Does anyone have any advice? I'm running 5.4-STABLE, just cvsupped, built and installed an hour ago. Thanks, Jaap Boender