Loader broken in Head?
Red Neck
kcender07 at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Oct 31 14:12:02 PDT 2007
The output of the loader is as follows:
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS drive D: is disk1
BIOS drive E: is disk2
BIOS 639kB/2090660kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root at jerry, Thu Oct 25 23:37:25 BST 2007)
\ ( <- spins forever)
The output of 'gpt show ad8' is as follows:
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - EFI System
409640 487463200 2 GPT part - Apple HFS
487872840 524295
488397135 32 Sec GPT table
488397167 1 Sec GPT header
----- Original Message ----
From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
To: Red Neck <kcender07 at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
Sent: Wednesday, 31 October, 2007 5:21:42 PM
Subject: Re: Loader broken in Head?
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 12:10:24 pm Red Neck wrote:
> cd devices:
> disk devices:
> disk0: BIOS drive C:
> disk0s1a: FFS
> disk0s1b: swap
> disk0s1d: FFS
> disk0s1e: FFS
> disk0s1f: FFS
> disk1: BIOS drive D:
> disk1s1: Unknown fs: 0x7
> disk1s2: FAT-32
> disk2: BIOS drive E:
> disk2s1: Unknown fs: 0xee
> pxe devices:
>
> Where disk1s1 is an NTFS filesystem and disk2s1 is the Mac GPT, don't
touch,
partition.
Ok, so disk2 has a GPT. Can you capture the output to show exactly
where it
is spinning? Also, can you get the output from 'gpt show ad3' (or
whatever
drive disk2 is)?
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
> To: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Cc: Red Neck <kcender07 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 October, 2007 1:57:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Loader broken in Head?
>
> On Friday 26 October 2007 08:03:21 pm Red Neck wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Within the last day (26/10/07) I've built and installed the sources
> from CVS
> > Head only to find the stage 3 boot loader, /boot/loader, not
working.
> I'm
> > using a Mac Pro with 3 internal hard drives. On one hard disk I
have
> > FreeBSD amd64 installed, occupying the entire disk (MBR). Using
the
> sources
> > from Head, loader just freezes after displaying its initial
messages
> with a
> > constantly spinning cursor. To access the system I have to revert
to
> using
> > an older loader such as 6.2 release's. I have attached my make and
> kernel
> > config.
>
> What does 'lsdev' from the old loader output on the box?
>
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