From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 16:44:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns5.eds.com (ns5.eds.com [203.17.185.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6EE37B401 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nnsy.eds.com (nnsy-3.eds.com [192.168.1.1]) by ns5.eds.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g5NNipG20585 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:44:51 +1000 (EST) Received: from nnsy.eds.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nnsy.eds.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5NNin310675 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:44:49 +1000 (EST) Received: from ausym000.exau01.exch.eds.com ([134.251.177.117]) by nnsy.eds.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5NNilF10653 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:44:48 +1000 (EST) Received: by AUSYM000 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:44:30 +1000 Message-ID: <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC0AAD@AUSYM103> From: "Pietralla, Siegfried P" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: yet another boot problem Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:45:05 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi all, i'm having a problem getting my new install of 4.5 to boot. i've successfully run through the install onto ad3s3 and the boot manager for the second disk comes up ( and lets me go back to disk one so i know it's working ) but when i pick 'f3' it just beeps at me. i can boot into 4.3 in ad0s3, then i mount ad3s3a onto /u33a, 'cd /u33a/boot', 'disklabel -B -b ./boot1 -s ./boot2 ad3s3' but it still doesn't help. i did successfully install 4.5 onto this disk a few weeks ago but i had it limited to 32Gb with a jumper on the disk since my bios wouldn't recognize it otherwise. now i'm running a new bios and i can see the whole disk. i 'fdisk'ed and 'disklabel'ed it from 4.3 using a geometry of 116301/16/63 which is reflected by dmesg when i boot up from the install cd but when i step through the installer it doesn't like this at all and insists on something like 7000/255/63. is this what's causing my problem? if so, how can i install 4.5 without going through the disk slicing and labelling part of the installer? why can i mount ad3s3a? this seems to imply everything's o.k. i did 'dd if=/dev/ad3s3 count=1 | od -c' and this looks the same as /u33a/boot/boot1. is this correct? where can i check boot2? and can i install it manually with dd? let me know if you want any more info. thanx, siegfried. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message