Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:45:29 +0200 From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: booting troubles from HD Message-ID: <4BBA13A9.7040801@uni-dortmund.de>
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Hello there, dear readers! :-)
I am having slight trouble booting FreeBSD *after* installing it to the HDs.
This is a Sun Ultra 60, 2 CPUs (450MHz), 2gigs of RAM, 2 Seagate Cheetah
74gig drives (these full-height things). There is no monitor, no
keyboard and no mouse connected. All installing is done via a serial
console. I am going to use this machine as a mail and news server, since
the old one is kinda busted and this old workstation is too good to be a
door stop. :-) Because of the stuff it will be doing, it won't need to
be accessed directly, ssh is a great tool.
Installing isn't really a problem, everything works fine - apart from
the actual booting from the HDs. Booting from CD works fine - otherwise
I wouldn't have been able to install FreeBSD. But somehow, there is no
/boot/loader. I was never asked if I wanted to install a boot loader or
anything after partitioning the disks - although I am not sure if this
question really applies to SPARC64. I last installed FreeBSD on a Sun
while 6.x was the production version. That went smoothly. I only tried
7.x briefly because it didn't work properly[1] with my machine. Apart
from the problems I had with it, 7.0 ran smoothly too. Now I'm trying
8.0 out to see if things have gotten better. :-)
There is one quirk about this installation:
I put / on the second HD (da1). The reason is because I want to encrypt
/usr /var and /tmp with geli(8), so I used the partition I had set aside
for /var/spool/news to accomodate / until I've set up the encrypted file
systems.
I tried to add a seperate file system for /boot on the da0, in case that
was the problem. Unfortunately that didn't do the trick either.
This is what happens, when I try to boot:
Sun Ultra 60 UPA/PCI (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.27, 2048 MB memory installed, Serial #15069787.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:e5:f2:5b, Host ID: 80e5f25b.
{0} ok boot disk0
Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0 File and args:
>> FreeBSD/sparc64 boot block
Boot path: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0:a
Boot loader: /boot/loader
File /boot/loader not found
Program terminated
Is there something I have missed? I didn't find anything special in the
handbook or errata concerning this.
Best regards,
Chris
[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2008-May/002905.html
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