From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 28 07:30:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E1B916A401 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:30:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from heathrow.savoladns.com (heathrow.savoladns.com [212.12.174.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2906343D45 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:30:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from heathrow.savoladns.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (heathrow.savoladns.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00619-07 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:30:51 +0300 (AST) Received: from Tuxntosh.savola.com (unknown [222.22.1.152]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by heathrow.savoladns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B109584F for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:30:50 +0300 (AST) From: Yousef Raffah To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1143526635.4925.233.camel@Tuxntosh.savola.com> References: <4931244.1143477563764.JavaMail.oracle@ocs.savola.com> <84dead720603271724o1d19109chebd2d2299691d5e9@mail.gmail.com> <1143526635.4925.233.camel@Tuxntosh.savola.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-x4w3mpjrtcmvNAgS2wwL" Organization: The Savola Group Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:30:09 +0300 Message-Id: <1143531010.4924.254.camel@Tuxntosh.savola.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Subject: Re: Can't boot with a new install X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yraffah@savola.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:30:56 -0000 --=-x4w3mpjrtcmvNAgS2wwL Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 09:17 +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 06:54 +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > yr> I see no reason why it can't boot of my drive after > > yr> installing FreeBSD, although this is not my first BSD > >=20 > > Check if there is a disk geometry mismatch. Can you boot > > from a CD and access the hard-disk in 'fixit' mode? > >=20 > Thank you Joseph for the reply and I would like to assure you that Yes, > I am able to boot from a CD and access the hard-disk in fixit mode by > mounting it under /mnt like this: >=20 > # mount /dev/ad0s1 /mnt >=20 > I can see all the folders in there were created yesterday, which is > correct! Any other hints to look for? >=20 I just tried fdisk in the "Fixit" mode and thought you guys might know what exactly is going on. # fdisk /dev/ad0 ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=3D155061 heads=3D16 sectors/track=3D63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders 155061 heads=3D16 sectors/track=3D63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 156296322 (76316 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator SSIS - The Savola Group -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at getfirefox.com yousef.raffah.com --=-x4w3mpjrtcmvNAgS2wwL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEKOYBH9IXMb4e6CMRAgdkAJ9rtV9C/Iccx8VjhQRH/Aq7WSCqtQCfS6Uy XlwyWGU3EyEOoYBjidcapBg= =NCyB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-x4w3mpjrtcmvNAgS2wwL--