From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 22 19:11:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D0D16A41F for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:11:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crapsh@monkeybrains.net) Received: from mail.monkeybrains.net (mail1.monkeybrains.NET [207.7.142.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E87B43D45 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:11:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crapsh@monkeybrains.net) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (adsl-67-121-155-68.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [67.121.155.68]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.monkeybrains.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7MJB3Ah031840 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:11:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crapsh@monkeybrains.net) Message-ID: <430A2342.4090405@monkeybrains.net> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:10:58 -0700 From: Rudy Rucker User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050426) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on mail.monkeybrains.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Boot loader messed up - How do I fix? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:11:04 -0000 I figured this out. Here was the problem: I put a USB keychain drive on my box and F5 was pointing to that. When I removed the USB device, F5 booted off my 3Ware card, as desired. I am guessing that if I leave the USB drive in, redo boot0cfg on Drive 1, then my boot menu (on Drive 1) would have something like this: F1: ?? (windoze) F2: FreeBSD F4: Drive 2 (USB drive) F5: Drive 3 (3Ware RAID card) Rudy >> I did a cvsup & made a new kernel & world on August 9th but now I can't boot. >> >> This was on my second drive. When I boot, I get this menu: >> >> F1: ?? >> F2: FreeBSD (old, May 31st FreeBSD 6.0 CURRENT) >> F5: Drive 2 (newer, Aug 9th FreeBSD - CURRENT) >> >> F2 works fine. F5 _used_ to go to my other drive and boot FreeBSD just fine. I have updated along the CURRENT branch many times, so I sort of know what I am doing ;)