Date: 21 Nov 2003 09:05:21 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: oli@bronskill.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader(8) question Message-ID: <44d6blizq6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3FBBC3AA.6050203@bronskill.com> References: <3FBBC3AA.6050203@bronskill.com>
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[Note: redirected to freebsd-stable] Oliver Neubauer <oli@bronskill.com> writes: > Hello, > > I just recently upgraded from 4.3 to 4.9 RELEASE by doing a clean install. > While I am able to boot the system fully, I have noticed the error > message "no /boot/loader" upon inital boot, with: "loader(8) metadata > missing" showing up a bit later one during the boot process. > > I don't know about the second message, but I can definitely say that > /boot/loader exists with rx permission for all.....I haven't changed a > thing since installing. > > I've come across quite a few questions about this in forums and > whatnot, but very little in the way of answers. Can anyone shed some > light? > > dmesg follows > > Thanks! > o > > 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 4.9-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 19 12:12:57 EST 2003 > root@smpbsd:/usr/src/sys/compile/SMPBSD > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > CPU: Pentium Pro (199.43-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x619 Stepping = 9 > Features=0xfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV> > real memory = 234881024 (229376K bytes) > avail memory = 225148928 (219872K bytes) > Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0 > IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard: 2 CPUs > cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 > cpu1 (AP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 > io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec00000 > Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled > md0: Malloc disk > npx0: <math processor> on motherboard > npx0: INT 16 interface > pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard > IOAPIC #0 intpin 19 -> irq 2 > IOAPIC #0 intpin 18 -> irq 10 > pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 > isab0: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 > isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 > atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 ATA controller> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 1.1 > on pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > ahc0: <Adaptec 2930CU SCSI adapter> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem > 0xf9000000-0xf9000fff irq 2 at device 9.0 on pci0 > aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs > pci0: <Cirrus Logic GD5446 SVGA controller> at 10.0 irq 10 > vr0: <VIA VT3043 Rhine I 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd800-0xd87f mem > 0xf8800000-0xf880007f irq 2 at device 13.0 on pci0 > vr0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:a1:a7:5b > miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0 > amphy0: <Am79C873 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 > amphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xcc7ff on isa0 > pmtimer0 on isa0 > fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 > fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 > 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=0x300> > sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 > sio0: type 16550A > sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 > sio1: type 16550A > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 > ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode > plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 > lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port > ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 > APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery > APIC_IO: routing 8254 via IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 > SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! > ad0: 3098MB <IBM-DAQA-33240> [6296/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2 > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > Mounting root from ufs:ad0s1a > da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > da0: <QUANTUM XP34301 1070> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled > da0: 4106MB (8410200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 523C) I've heard of this happening to other people, too, but I can't reproduce it myself (although admittedly my ability to do so is somewhat limited because my "scratch" machine won't boot recent release kernels because of the inclusion of the AGP driver). Do you perhaps have a /boot.config file that is overriding the invocation of the loader?
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