From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 21:59:14 2004 Return-Path: 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 795A316A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:59:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.antitheoretical.org (virtue.antitheoretical.org [64.246.167.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF57743D2F for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:59:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@virtue.antitheoretical.org) Received: (qmail 8737 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Jan 2004 05:59:50 -0000 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:59:50 -0600 From: Matt Reinhart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040123055950.GA8431@virtue.antitheoretical.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Trouble booting 4.9 on Compaq DL360 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 05:59:14 -0000 Hello, I recently did a standard ("Developer", no X) install of 4.9-RELEASE on a Compaq Proliant DL360. Everything went smoothly. After the install finished copying files, I tried installing a standard MBR, but when it didn't work I assumed I made a mistake and tried the same install again with BootMgr. After the second errorless installation, I rebooted and removed the CD from the drive. Upon reboot, the boot manager and its familiar F1 prompt shows on the screen. However, when it tries to continue I receive the following message: "Error Booting System Partition". (This is the same error I received without BootMgr.) I googled for this message to no avail. At this point, I rebooted the system from the install cd. At the boot prompt, I entered the following: unload set currdev=disk2s1a load /kernel The system then booted with the configuration I had set during the install process and is still up-and-running (but cannot be rebooted without user-intervention). I have tried `disklabel -B -b /boot/boot0` to restore the MBR, but I still receive the same message ("Error Booting System Partition") following the initial bootloader screen. Does anyone have an idea of what is happening? -Matt If it's of any help, here's the output from dmesg(8): 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: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003 root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1266MHz (1263.45-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6b1 Stepping = 1 Features=0x383fbff real memory = 4060069888 (3964912K bytes) avail memory = 3953598464 (3860936K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc053f000. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 ida0: port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xf5000000-0xf5ffffff,0xf6000000-0xf6ffffff irq 3 at device 1.0 on pci0 ida0: drives=1 firm_rev=1.50 idad0: on ida0 idad0: 34727MB (71122560 sectors), blocksize=512 pci0: at 3.0 pci0: (vendor=0x0e11, dev=0xa0f0) at 4.0 isab0: at device 15.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0x2800-0x280f at device 15.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pcib3: on motherboard pci3: on pcib3 fxp0: port 0x3000-0x303f mem 0xf7e00000-0xf7efffff,0xf7fff000-0xf7ffffff irq 5 at device 4.0 on pci3 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:02:a5:e9:69:f4 inphy0: on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp1: port 0x3040-0x307f mem 0xf7c00000-0xf7cfffff,0xf7dff000-0xf7dfffff irq 7 at device 5.0 on pci3 fxp1: Ethernet address 00:02:a5:e9:69:f3 inphy1: on miibus1 inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp2: port 0x3080-0x30bf mem 0xf7a00000-0xf7afffff,0xf7bff000-0xf7bfffff irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci3 fxp2: Ethernet address 00:d0:b7:df:11:0c inphy2: on miibus2 inphy2: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto eisa0: on motherboard mainboard0: on eisa0 slot 0 orm0: