From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 4 01:32:37 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D8C95D1 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 01:32:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ea0-f173.google.com (mail-ea0-f173.google.com [209.85.215.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90181E7 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 01:32:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f173.google.com with SMTP id i13so6371840eaa.4 for ; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:32:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=/jj7BHAtN+yUMdtFv+YZzAxn3jX3ixFlhZVR/bJHswY=; b=zdA3Dm4B3l+J2uQjW6CO1xUBRXiJl7lyAu9h0QY+K+bUzDE3CDVZqDLBbsAlpTSmgz mrg0oqgQz5ercSwd/CoNO+yB4j+HAmJ9Zg4mmIbeKXEgwKftGpYiW9LcjgqjQbSEKZjK 2f8rhFAWJ45H3xUIHWTIukAUpgpmv5kb1FKqbi/Uo4F/e7MoykjUxWG5dFDk24XTy3oM OC4TJsk8C4+kAqtjjWjbH94VGnP10lX9VxanSRwWm/smr8FlVPURxcZqLq82v16Iaaml 49ZLwo+P1f6/xOsPiVSOVdh4PEIl07+W8wFzh3OI/BPB8cyixKNQz2Clm6YMAeM4vjZM aMZg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.204.198 with SMTP id h46mr139375543eeo.1.1357263150094; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:32:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.170.193 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Jan 2013 17:32:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50E49298.5030000@rcn.com> References: <50E0BFA0.6070702@rcn.com> <50E476D3.2030609@rcn.com> <50E49298.5030000@rcn.com> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 17:32:29 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT From: Kevin Oberman To: Robert Huff Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Benjamin Kaduk , current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:32:37 -0000 On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Robert Huff wrote: > On 1/2/2013 1:57 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Robert Huff wrote: > > >> For a full clean install, I believe that bsdinstall should prompt about >> installing bootcode around here. I don't really understand from your >> procedure how bsdinstall was used; there might be some edge case where >> there is no prompt about bootcode. >> >>> 2) Installed off the 9.0 CD, got it up and running, everything was >>> good. > > > Let me elaborate on this: > > 2) Installed off the 9.0 CD, had a fully bootable system connected > to the Internet, everything was good. > > >> I think you should investigate the 'bootcode' subcommand of gpart(8). > > > Does the above change things? > It was my expectation "installkernel" would Do The Right Thing with > respect to new bootcode, and I am surprised it did not. installkernel does absolutely nothing to the boot partition. You need to use bsdinstall or gpart to write the new image to disk. That said, I know of no reason that the boot code written by the 9.0 install would fail to boot head. I am running 9.1 on a GPT disk and it works fine, but I that disk is ada1 and I have booteasy installed on the MBR of ada0. It has no problems booting the 9.1 system. (Windows 7 in on ada0.) Then again, I am hardly an expert on the subject. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com