Help with Booting
Erich Dollansky
erichfreebsdlist at ovitrap.com
Sat Apr 23 09:20:26 UTC 2011
Hi,
I only can tell what I do when a machine does not boot from the installation media: I plug the disk into another machine, install the generic kernel, edit /etc and put it back.
If this does not work, it will be hard.
Erich
On Saturday 23 April 2011 14:25:13 Doug Hardie wrote:
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> On 22 April 2011, at 23:46, Erich Dollansky wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > On Saturday 23 April 2011 12:57:32 Doug Hardie wrote:
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> >> On 22 April 2011, at 21:28, Erich Dollansky wrote:
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> >>> It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true?
> >>>
> >> I am not sure. The last message is the timestamp from the original distribution build. Then is a line with just the '/' character that should spin a bit. It doesn't.
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> >> By playing around a bit I got it a bit farther. I took one of the raid disks and mounted it in a different system. I did an install on it but without changing the label other than to use all the disk. Then I put it back in the production system and booted. It appears to retain the RAID characteristics, but all I get is a '-' at the top left of the screen. I then plugged in the memstick image and booted from that. Right after the last DOS window I pressed F10 which took me to a FreeBSD boot line with the default pointing to ad0. I used 0:ad(4,a)/boot/loader and it went on to the same point as before, but then a bit farther. I now see:
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> > this is all to weird for me. Could you install a disk not using the raid hardware?
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> > It would then exclude the motherboard as the cause.
> >
> > Erich
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> No. That didn't work either. I had been using the machine on amd64 but I had to install with the drive on another system. I couldn't get it to boot of CD or memstick. However, the memstick I used then was dead today so I bought a new one hoping that was the problem. Unfortunately this stick is good, but it still won't boot off it.
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> >> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> >> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x8ffac1 |
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> >> The '|' normally spins a couple of times and moves on to the next section. However, its hung there now.
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> >>> On Saturday 23 April 2011 05:38:41 Doug Hardie wrote:
> >>>> I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to install 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up and running on it before, but I had to remove a drive and do the install on another computer. That worked, but now I need to use the built in RAID hardware. As best as I can tell I am going to have to install on the the actual hardware. Motherboard is an Arima NM46X. The machine appears to be about 6 years old.
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> >>>> I have tried to boot the install disk, the live filesystem disk, and the memstick image for FreeBSD 7.0 through 8.2. All of them do exactly the same thing:
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> >>>> Bootstart starts.
> >>>>
> >>>> BTX loader lists the drives and memory
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> >>>> FreeBSD bootstrap loader version 1.1 starts. I get the build date and then a new line with just a '/' on it. It never begins to spin. No additional I/O occurs with the boot device.
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> >>>> The memstick and CDs are good. They boot just fine on another computer, just not this one. I have had to work around CD issues in the past, but I thought the memstick would work if the BIOS would recognize it and boot from it. It recognizes it and tries to boot. I need some ideas here as the RAID is essential for this application. Thanks,
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