From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 27 21:13:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 D5DB516A41F for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:13:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsh.lists@comcast.net) Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net (sccrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.202.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7696843D46 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:13:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsh.lists@comcast.net) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (tardiss.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[66.30.82.93]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <2005082721131201400spev4e>; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:13:12 +0000 Message-ID: <4310D765.8030403@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:13:09 -0400 From: Sean User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050817) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glenn Dawson References: <431064F5.2020508@comcast.net> <6.2.3.4.2.20050827125557.05abd7d0@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050827125557.05abd7d0@cobalt.antimatter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot problem (stage 2 boot?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rsh.lists@comcast.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:13:14 -0000 Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 06:04 AM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote: > >> Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot. >> >> Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks like the >> following example from the handbook >> >> >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT >> Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel >> boot: >> >> from my reading this is a boot2 stage >> >> booting from cd and going into Fixit it fdisk shows partition 1, 2, >> and 3 unused, and Freebsd is on partition 4. >> I thought it should be on partition 1? > > > How did you arrange the file systems when you installed. Did you use > the defaults, or your own layout? > > The defaults would have given you 5 partitions inside of the first > slice. For example: > ad0s1a - / > ad0s1b - swap > ad0s1d - /var > ad0s1e - /tmp > ad0s1f - /usr > > Did you not use the 'a' partition for your root file system? Second > stage boot code only knows how to find third stage on the 'a' partition. > > More details on your installation would help in trying to figure out > what the problem is. > > -Glenn > >> Note: on install I choose the Standard boot manager. >> >> I have tried playing with fdisk and disklabel to try to cure this >> problem, but continually get the example shown above. >> With none of the above efforts working I have tried changing the boot >> manager and no luck, both by reinstalling and just by using sysinstall >> to modify the boot manager.I did get F1 FreeBSD when trying the >> FreeBSD boot manager option, but it still did not start the system. >> >> >> Thanks >> Sean I created the above partitions you listed manually and specified to my choice sizes, and i did choose 'a', or entire disk on creation. No matter how I approach this problem I always wind up in the same place. I am guessing now that the MBR has a problem. Thanks Sean