Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 01:08:01 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <doug@mail.sermon-archive.info> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Weird boot problem Message-ID: <E6377123-9964-4BFC-B045-B871476DE3B2@mail.sermon-archive.info>
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I had to move a bunch of servers to a new location yesterday. That was = an interesting exercise. However, two of the systems exhibited the same = behavior when first booted at the new facility. The message gptboot: = could not find on 0(ad2). I believe I recall this correctly. A search = on that message indicated that there should be another word between find = and on like kernel or loader. There was nothing there on either system. = The system appeared to reboot after that message as there were a couple = other messages and then that message reappeared. I believe all of the = systems are MBR formatted. I don't believe any are new enough to = support GPT. Given that there were other systems coming up at that time, I left them = till the end. Nothing seemed to change anything. In desperation we = power cycled one of them and it booted properly with no error messages. = Not being on site, I didn't see what was done to the other, but I = suspect it was a power cycle and then it came up. There was no = identifiable corruption on either system. I am a bit fearful of = rebooting them again. Any ideas what might have caused this and is it something telling me go = get new systems?
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