Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:05:39 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Boot process Message-ID: <199905251905.VAA29541@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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Hi I am having some problems with a machine I recently rebuilt; I suspect either the drive geometry or something else in the boot process. The machine has to be booted "manually". Situation: I installed FreeBSD 3.1 on a 4G SCSI disk that had had Current on it before (CURRENT snaps wouldn't boot). At the F1 FreeBSD F5 Disk 1 prompt, the machine just beeps, and does not reboot. (The other disk is a 2G SCSI) Drive geometry is 64 heads, 32 sectors and N(>1024) tracks. The a partition is the first and it is only 32MB. Disklabel looks OK. If I play around (Hit F5 or space or enter), I get "Invalid partition" errors. Hitting enter at that stage gets me a Boot: prompt. The only thing that gets an actial boot is typing 0:da(1,a)/boot/loader. Then both disks are visible and fine. Both disks have had fdisk -b and disklabel -B done to them. Any clues? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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