From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 07:52:32 2003 Return-Path: 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 C7DBE37B404; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:52:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from enigma.whacky.net (enigma.whacky.net [217.148.161.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E83A43FA3; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:52:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephanb@whacky.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.whacky.net [127.0.0.1]) by enigma.whacky.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C25211E0; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:52:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from enigma.whacky.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (enigma.whacky.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with SMTP id 62836-06; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:52:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by enigma.whacky.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6AC28211D4; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:52:21 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:52:21 +0200 From: Stephan van Beerschoten To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030806145221.GF50076@enigma.whacky.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Bootstrap: Machine keeps booting ? (boot0/mbr) ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:52:33 -0000 I just finished installing this brand new -CURRENT box. I haven't been on -CURRENt for a while, and thought about having a peek at 5.x. After installing the machine, it boots up fine for a while, but then something strange happends. I have not yet been able to determine WHY it happends, much less do I know WHAT exactly happends. I hope you can help. The only thing I did was to update my 5.1 install to the latest -CURRENT. I assume the make world somehow also does something to update the bootloader, or is this where I went wrong ?=20 Please read on: I installed the Bootloader for my dualboot machine, and when it comes up during boot: F1 ?? F2 FreeBSD and I press F2, it autmatically reboots again. Please note it DID work yesterday, but somehow my laptops keeps booting on my now. (-CURRENT ? why?) I am dualbooting with WinXP, and I initially grabbed the first 512bytes =66rom /dev/ad0s2c and dumped them on the XP disk, using the NTLoader to boot FreeBSD for me. This too worked untill _something_ happened and selecting FreeBSD caused the machine to spontaniously reboot too. Since this happends even before any real kernels are loaded, I cannot produce any debug output, so any hints on resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated. Please copy me in on any replies, as I am not yet on -current. I will once this problem is fixed :) /Stephan --=20 Stephan van Beerschoten [SVB21-RIPE] stephanb@whacky.net PGP fingerprint: 4557 9761 B212 FB4C 778D 3529 C42A 2D27 "To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy"