From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 23 15:34:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 9F89B16A4E1 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:34:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD7043D5D for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:34:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k7NFYAf4055249; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:34:10 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060823102855.025e2148@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:33:58 -0500 To: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison), gregb@scls.lib.wi.us From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <10608230648.AA14609@pluto.rain.com> References: <10608230648.AA14609@pluto.rain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new 6.1 install will not boot 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: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:34:38 -0000 I have seen this happen where the kernel is not copied by sysinstall. I booted the install CD but exited sysinstall to a shell prompt, mounted the root partitiion and manually copied the kernel. You might give that a try. -Derek At 01:48 AM 8/23/2006, Perry Hutchison wrote: > > Recommend you get a [bigger|second] disk if you can though, > > or housecleaning will be a constant chore. > >I got it more or less working, although not completely set up, and >then that 10GB disk died: click -- kerthunk -- click -- kerthunk >continuously, even after cycling power, even with only the power >connected :( > >After replacing it with a 160GB Hitachi, and reinstalling Windoze, >Linux, and FreeBSD (in that order, as before), I seem to be back at >square one -- FreeBSD won't boot -- but the details are different. >Partition Commander now has: > > Ptn size ----- type ----- 1st sector # of sectors > P0 250M FAT32 0x0B 63 514017 > P1 7M Linux ext2 0x83 514080 16065 > P2 41.99G Unix 0xA5 530145 88068330 > P3 85.75G Extended 0x0F 88598475 179831610 > L0 43.75G FAT32 0x0B 88598538 91763217 > L1 400M Linux swap 0x82 180361818 819252 > L2 41.60G Linux ext2 0x83 181181133 87248952 > >Sysinstall had not commented about the geometry with the 10GB disk, >but it did this time; and as suggested I let it do what it wanted. >The Dell BIOS will not tell me what it thinks the geometry is -- it >just says the drive is EIDE -- so I have no direct way of verifying >sysinstall's geometry; however the first BIOS partition is a >working FAT32 and per the instructions that "should" be enough for >sysinstall to have gotten it right. (The second BIOS partition is >a Linux /boot, which also works.) > >The install appeared to succeed, and the FreeBSD boot manager does >successfully boot Windoze and Linux, but all attempts to boot FreeBSD >from the hard disk fail. > >The following was transcribed by hand, so there might be some typos; >and I've added some notes to the right of the lsdev output. I've >also confirmed, using the loader's "ls", that there is no visible >file named 'kernel' in the root directory, nor anywhere under /boot, >/rescue, or /sbin. Where is it supposed to come from, and how do >I get it where it needs to be without reinstalling the whole thing >*yet again*? > >==================================================================== > > >F1 DOS >F2 Linux >F3 FreeBSD > >Default: F3 > >BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 >Consoles: internal video/keyboard >BIOS drive A: is disk0 >BIOS drive C: is disk1 >BIOS 640kB/195584kB available memory >acpi: bad RSDP checksum (210) > >FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 >(root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 7 03:20:03 UTC 2006) >Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf >Unable to load a kernel! >/ >can't load 'kernel' > >Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. >OK lsdev >cd devices: >disk devices: > disk0: BIOS drive A: > disk1: BIOS drive C: > disk1s1: FAT32 # C: > disk1s2: ext2fs # Linux /boot > disk1s3a: FFS # FreeBSD / > disk1s3b: swap > disk1s3d: FFS # FreeBSD /var > disk1s3e: FFS # FreeBSD /tmp > disk1s3f: FFS # FreeBSD /usr > disk1s4: Unknown fs: 0xf # contains FAT32 D:, Linux swap and / >pxe devicde: >OK >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. 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