loader(8) question

[Oliver Neubauer]

Hi,

Actually, I found out that this was a disk geometry problem.....
During the re-install, my / partition ended up being partly outside the 
addressable area of my (ancient) BIOS. A repartitioning, along with some 
BIOS changes and disk geometry settings and all was fixed.

Thanks for the response though....

cheers
o

Lowell Gilbert wrote:

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>Oliver Neubauer <oli at bronskill.com> writes:
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>>Hello,
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>>I just recently upgraded from 4.3 to 4.9 RELEASE by doing a clean install.
>>While I am able to boot the system fully, I have noticed the error
>>message "no /boot/loader" upon inital boot, with: "loader(8) metadata
>>missing" showing up a bit later one during the boot process.
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>>I don't know about the second message, but I can definitely say that
>>/boot/loader exists with rx permission for all.....I haven't changed a
>>thing since installing.
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>>I've come across quite a few questions about this in forums and
>>whatnot, but very little in the way of answers. Can anyone shed some
>>light?
>>
>>dmesg follows
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>>Thanks!
>>o
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>>Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
>>Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>>        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>>FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 19 12:12:57 EST 2003
>>    root at smpbsd:/usr/src/sys/compile/SMPBSD
>>Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
>>CPU: Pentium Pro (199.43-MHz 686-class CPU)
>>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x619  Stepping = 9
>>  Features=0xfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV>
>>real memory  = 234881024 (229376K bytes)
>>avail memory = 225148928 (219872K bytes)
>>Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0
>>IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
>>FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard: 2 CPUs
>> cpu0 (BSP): apic id:  1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
>> cpu1 (AP):  apic id:  0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
>> io0 (APIC): apic id:  2, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec00000
>>Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
>>md0: Malloc disk
>>npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
>>npx0: INT 16 interface
>>pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
>>IOAPIC #0 intpin 19 -> irq 2
>>IOAPIC #0 intpin 18 -> irq 10
>>pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
>>isab0: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
>>isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
>>atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 ATA controller> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 1.1
>>on pci0
>>ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
>>ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
>>ahc0: <Adaptec 2930CU SCSI adapter> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem
>>0xf9000000-0xf9000fff irq 2 at device 9.0 on pci0
>>aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs
>>pci0: <Cirrus Logic GD5446 SVGA controller> at 10.0 irq 10
>>vr0: <VIA VT3043 Rhine I 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd800-0xd87f mem
>>0xf8800000-0xf880007f irq 2 at device 13.0 on pci0
>>vr0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:a1:a7:5b
>>miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0
>>amphy0: <Am79C873 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
>>amphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>>orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xcc7ff on isa0
>>pmtimer0 on isa0
>>fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
>>fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
>>fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>>atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
>>atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
>>kbd0 at atkbd0
>>vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
>>sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>>sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>>sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
>>sio0: type 16550A
>>sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
>>sio1: type 16550A
>>ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
>>ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
>>plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
>>lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
>>lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
>>ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
>>APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
>>APIC_IO: routing 8254 via IOAPIC #0 intpin 2
>>SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
>>ad0: 3098MB <IBM-DAQA-33240> [6296/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2
>>Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
>>Mounting root from ufs:ad0s1a
>>da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
>>da0: <QUANTUM XP34301 1070> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
>>da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
>>da0: 4106MB (8410200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 523C)
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>I've heard of this happening to other people, too, but I can't
>reproduce it myself (although admittedly my ability to do so is
>somewhat limited because my "scratch" machine won't boot recent
>release kernels because of the inclusion of the AGP driver).
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>Do you perhaps have a /boot.config file that is overriding the
>invocation of the loader?
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