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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:58:29 -0700
From:      "Frank Masolijn" <frank@masolijn.nl>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:    Retry: Problem with boot/loader I can't seem to solve. Ideas anyone?
Message-ID:  <003101c3793e$53fda190$0200a8c0@raven>

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L.S.

For about a week now I've been trying unsuccesfully to solve the problem
below.

My machine was installed with 4.8-Release.
The problem started after compiling and installing a new kernel to =
replace
kernel.GENERIC

What happens is:

The system starts.
Detects the AH2940 SCSI controller.
The controller detects 3 devices.
-SCSI ID#2 CDROM
-SCSI ID#1 IBM 4,3 GB Disk 0x80 (probably recognized later as da1)
-SCSI ID#0 IBM 4,3 GB Disk 0x81 (probably recognized later as da0)

It then starts boot0 and shows the boot0 selection-screen.
F1 FreeBSD
F5 Drive 1

Default: F1

-Choosing F5 results in errors since that one isn't bootable.
-Choosing F1 (in my opinion the correct one) yields the following.

Having choosen something at boot0 the system continues.
At this point it should be able to find /boot.config, but as I'll later =
show
it apparently ignores it.

It then shows the boot2 screen.
>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel
boot:

At this point I've tried entering the following things.
X:da(Y,a)/Z with
    -X anywhere between 0 and 5.
    -Y anywhere between 0 and 2.
    -Z either /kernel or /boot/loader.

The following options allowed a continued boot.
1:da(0,a)/kernel
1:da(1,a)/kernel
1:da(2,a)/kernel
1:da(0,a)/boot/loader
1:da(1,a)/boot/loader
1:da(2,a)/boot/loader

All the others didn't work.

Having discovered the correct input I assumed putting the same into
/boot.config would solve the problem and would ensure I wouldn't have to
fill it in manually every time the system boots
(this is not practial sincec the system neither has a viewscreen or a
keyboard) this however isn't the case. Whatever I fill in into =
/boot.config
the result remains the same. The system tries to boot
tells me twice "Invalid partition' followed by "Can't find /kernel".

I've reinstalled boot0, boot1 and boot2 to no effect. Re=EFnstalling =
FreeBSD
from scratch and making another kernel resulted in the same problem.

My guts tell me the problems lies in boot0 or boot1's apparent =
inabillity to
execute the correct value specified in /boot.config but I can't find any
cause for this.
Has anyone got any ideas on how to resolve this problem or where to find
additional documentation since I can't find enough information in the
Handbook to determine whether the problem indeed lies in the system's
inabillity to find /boot.config?

Thanks in advance,

Frank Masolijn

PS. Below anyone interested will find all information I think might be
required. (If somethings missing please mail me.)

DMESG
Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights =
reserved.
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #1: Mon Sep  1 18:47:33 CEST 2003
    kalizec@qequoia:/usr/src/sys/compile/QEQUOIA
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (233.87-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin =3D "GenuineIntel"  Id =3D 0x633  Stepping =3D 3

Features=3D0x80f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,C=
MOV,M
MX>
real memory  =3D 100663296 (98304K bytes)
avail memory =3D 94269440 (92060K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0392000.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
Using $PIR table, 6 entries at 0xc00fda50
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) host to PCI bridge> mem =
0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff
at device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on =
pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> at device 7.1 on pci0
atapci0: ATA channel disabled by BIOS
pci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> at 7.2 irq 15
chip0: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0x5f00-0x5f0f at
device 7.3 on pci0
rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0x6800-0x68ff mem
0xef000000-0xef0000ff irq 15 at device 9.0 on pci0
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:fc:2a:88:ff
miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter> port 0x6c00-0x6cff mem
0xef001000-0xef001fff irq 12 at device 10.0 on pci0
aic7870: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=3D7, 16/253 SCBs
pci0: <S3 968 graphics accelerator> at 11.0 irq 10
ed0: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (ProLAN)> port 0x7000-0x701f irq 11 at device =
12.0
on pci0
ed0: address 48:54:e8:90:55:96, type NE2000 (16 bit)
eisa0: <EISA bus> on motherboard
eisa0: unknown card ADP7871 (0x04907871) at slot 6
orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xcb7ff on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on =
isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0
ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on =
isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=3D0x300>
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 8250
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
ppc0: parallel port not found.
IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding
enabled, default to deny, logging disabled
BRIDGE 020214 loaded
Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <IBM-PCCO DDRS-34560W   !# S97B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
Enabled
da0: 4303MB (8813870 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 548C)
da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
da1: <IBM-PCCO DDRS-34560W   !# S97B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da1: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
Enabled
da1: 4303MB (8813870 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 548C)
cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
cd0: <PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-32TS 1.03> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
cd0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)# Qequoia's new kernel
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present

KERNEL CONFIG
machine         i386
ident           QEQUOIA
cpu             I686_CPU
ident           GENERIC
maxusers        0

options         MATH_EMULATE            #Support for x87 emulation
options         INET                    #InterNETworking
options         INET6                   #IPv6 communications protocols
options         FFS                     #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options         FFS_ROOT                #FFS usable as root device [keep
this!]
options         SOFTUPDATES             #Enable FFS soft updates support
options         UFS_DIRHASH             #Improve performance on big
directories
options         MFS                     #Memory Filesystem
options         MD_ROOT                 #MD is a potential root device
options         NFS                     #Network Filesystem
options         NFS_ROOT                #NFS usable as root device, NFS
required
options         MSDOSFS                 #MSDOS Filesystem
options         CD9660                  #ISO 9660 Filesystem
options         CD9660_ROOT             #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660
required
options         PROCFS                  #Process filesystem
options         COMPAT_43               #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP
THIS!]
options         SCSI_DELAY=3D5000         #Delay (in ms) before probing =
SCSI
options         UCONSOLE                #Allow users to grab the console
options         USERCONFIG              #boot -c editor
options         VISUAL_USERCONFIG       #visual boot -c editor
options         KTRACE                  #ktrace(1) support
options         SYSVSHM                 #SYSV-style shared memory
options         SYSVMSG                 #SYSV-style message queues
options         SYSVSEM                 #SYSV-style semaphores
options         P1003_1B                #Posix P1003_1B real-time =
extensions
options         _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING
options         ICMP_BANDLIM            #Rate limit bad replies
options         KBD_INSTALL_CDEV        # install a CDEV entry in /dev
options         AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT    # Print register bitfields in =
debug
                                        # output.  Adds ~128k to driver.
options         AHD_REG_PRETTY_PRINT    # Print register bitfields in =
debug
                                        # output.  Adds ~215k to driver.

device          isa
device          eisa
device          pci

# Floppy drives
device          fdc0    at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2
device          fd0     at fdc0 drive 0
device          fd1     at fdc0 drive 1

# ATA and ATAPI devices
device          ata0    at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
device          ata1    at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
device          ata
device          atadisk                 # ATA disk drives
device          atapicd                 # ATAPI CDROM drives
device          atapifd                 # ATAPI floppy drives
device          atapist                 # ATAPI tape drives
options         ATA_STATIC_ID           #Static device numbering

# SCSI Controllers
device          ahc             # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices

# SCSI peripherals
device          scbus           # SCSI bus (required)
device          da              # Direct Access (disks)
device          cd              # CD

# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device          atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD
device          atkbd0  at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1
device          psm0    at atkbdc? irq 12

device          vga0    at isa?

# splash screen/screen saver
pseudo-device   splash

# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device          sc0     at isa? flags 0x100

device          agp             # support several AGP chipsets

# Floating point support - do not disable.
device          npx0    at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13

# Power management support (see LINT for more options)
device          apm0    at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power
Management

# Serial (COM) ports
device          sio0    at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4
device          sio1    at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3
device          sio2    at isa? disable port IO_COM3 irq 5
device          sio3    at isa? disable port IO_COM4 irq 9

# Parallel port
device          ppc0    at isa? irq 7
device          ppbus           # Parallel port bus (required)
device          lpt             # Printer
device          plip            # TCP/IP over parallel
device          ppi             # Parallel port interface device

# PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these =
NICs!
device          miibus          # MII bus support
device          rl              # RealTek 8129/8139
device          xl              # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', =
``Cyclone'')

# ISA Ethernet NICs.
# 'device ed' requires 'device miibus'
device          ed0     at isa? disable port 0x280 irq 10 iomem 0xd8000

# Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
pseudo-device   loop            # Network loopback
pseudo-device   ether           # Ethernet support
pseudo-device   sl      1       # Kernel SLIP
pseudo-device   ppp     10      # Kernel PPP
pseudo-device   tun             # Packet tunnel.
pseudo-device   pty             # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
pseudo-device   md              # Memory "disks"
pseudo-device   gif             # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
pseudo-device   faith   1       # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)

# The `bpf' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter.
# Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this!
pseudo-device   bpf             #Berkeley packet filter

options IPFIREWALL
options IPDIVERT
options ROOTDEVNAME=3D\"ufs:da1s1a\"
options BRIDGE

DISKLABEL da0
# /dev/da0c:
type: SCSI
disk: da0s1
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 32
tracks/cylinder: 128
sectors/cylinder: 4096
cylinders: 2150
sectors/unit: 8810464
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  a:   524288        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 - =
127)
  b:   524288   524288      swap                        # (Cyl.  128 - =
255)
  c:  8810464        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
2150*)
  e:  1048576  1048576    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.  256 - =
511)
  f:  1048576  2097152    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.  512 - =
767)
  g:  5664736  3145728    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.  768 -
2150*)

DISKLABEL da1
# /dev/da1c:
type: SCSI
disk: da1s1
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 547
sectors/unit: 8803557
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  b:   524288        0      swap                        # (Cyl.    0 - =
32*)
  c:  8803557        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - =
547*)
  e:  8279269   524288    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.   32*- =
547*)



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