From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 12 22:56:13 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42B979A3 for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 22:56:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x236.google.com (mail-lb0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AD3292ED9 for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 22:56:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f182.google.com with SMTP id q8so8036599lbi.13 for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 15:56:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=rrfsxVCvXf7MlH9hwMOXZlxq7yCAS+FyXvO37nIm/ZM=; b=Ak87gQ4EHrc83EShLX1XHyRCdq8De6BrECRwMULSVlcsOhsxVyqoHrdyuCVB2mUBMl MJK/J1IBHmcpoQHxvM8M2omR/N9Z26Eydcbz6TNcaKrxAv6d2IsF/ioxytifnD90qs9y ZLFBHneGAIKID3J11bdMb1/JMgom8aVzgcAzLkAgQ3iF0RhmfqdKoH6EJK8eLsZ8gw2n hYqnVu1v7j1CKTwkMU2opZaPgwM842scacN/1hBc/QOxquEwuCqJM9UfkGnm1NeXvd9a jDAdGXDM+N7Nc/Xn1pCs6H24v5ionxLKJDoRPsHW8mnER0S1DZUGa1cjgVEjlwqA+Ou5 y6Gg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.20.194 with SMTP id p2mr15176126lae.13.1399935370467; Mon, 12 May 2014 15:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.146.66 with HTTP; Mon, 12 May 2014 15:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 02:56:10 +0400 Message-ID: Subject: Can't boot from ada1s2a with boot0, getting only # sign From: Mario Zorin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 22:56:13 -0000 Hi all, I have a disk partitioned like this: # ls /dev/ada1* /dev/ada1 /dev/ada1s2 /dev/ada1s2b /dev/ada1s2e /dev/ada1s1 /dev/ada1s2a /dev/ada1s2d /dev/ada1s2f # gpart show => 63 976773105 ada1 MBR (466G) 63 63 - free - (32K) 126 79691661 1 freebsd (38G) 79691787 63 - free - (32K) 79691850 897081255 2 freebsd [active] (428G) 976773105 63 - free - (32K) => 0 79691661 ada1s1 BSD (38G) 0 79691661 - free - (38G) => 0 897081255 ada1s2 BSD (428G) 0 6 - free - (3.0K) 6 6291456 1 freebsd-ufs (3.0G) 6291462 8388608 2 freebsd-swap (4.0G) 14680070 4194304 4 freebsd-ufs (2.0G) 18874374 79691776 5 freebsd-ufs (38G) 98566150 798515104 6 freebsd-ufs (381G) 897081254 1 - free - (512B) (I'll fill the s1 slice with an older version of windows in the future, hence MBR.) During install of 11-CURRENT system (the same happened with 10-STABLE) I set desired partitions like this: ada1 466 GB MBR ada1s1 38 GB BSD ada1s2 428 GB BSD ada1s2a 3.0 GB freebsd-ufs / ada1s2b 4.0 GB freebsd-swap ada1s2d 2.0 GB freebsd-ufs /var ada1s2e 38 GB freebsd-ufs /usr ada1s2f 381 GB freebsd-ufs /home After install, I did boot0cfg -B ada1 After boot, I got the expected menu: F1 FreeBSD F2 FreeBSD ... However, after pressing F2, I got only # sign printed. Repeated pressing F2 resulted just in new # added behind in the same line. I can't figure out what else I have to do. What am I missing? M.Zorin