i386/61005: The Boot Manager in FreeBSD 5.2RC can't boot FreeBSD

[Jin Guojun [DSD]]

The following reply was made to PR i386/61005; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jin Guojun [DSD]" <j_guojun at lbl.gov>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/61005: The Boot Manager  in FreeBSD 5.2RC can't boot FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:18:46 -0800

 ---------- original message -------------
 I use "boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0" to reinstall the boot manager in
 FreeBSD 5.2RC, after I reboot my box, the boot manager shows:
      F1 BSD
      F2 FreeBSD
      F3 Linux
 
      I press F1, the boot manager can load NetBSD correctly, and when I press F2
 and F3 it can't load the operation system, and boot manager doesn't report any
 message about this.
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 Similar problem exists in 5.2 and 5.2.1-RC2.
 Below is a list of disks in one of my system. During the installation,
 only da0 is selected for installation, and boot prompt shows:
      F1 FreeBSD
      F5 FreeBSD
 
 Press F1 key has error: "no /boot/kernel/kernel" found.
 Reinstalled it many times without success. So, tried to press F5 then F1.
 Same error. F5-F5-F1 made final boot. Well, what happened is that
 somehow, boot manager is installed on all three drives, but bootable
 block is on the third drive rather than on the first drive.
 
 da1 at sym0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
 da1: <SEAGATE ST39173N 5698> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
 da1: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
 da1: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
 da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
 da0: <SEAGATE ST15230N 0498> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
 da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
 da0: 4095MB (8386733 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 522C)
 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
 cd0 at sym1 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
 cd0: <MATSHITA CD-ROM CR-504 ST22> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
 cd0: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 15)
 cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
 da2 at sym1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
 da2: <SEAGATE ST39173N 5698> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
 da2: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
 da2: 8683MB (17783240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
 
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