Retry: Problem with boot/loader I can't seem to solve. Ideas
anyone?
Ryan Merrick
sandshrimp at comcast.net
Fri Sep 12 01:56:06 PDT 2003
Frank Masolijn wrote:
> L.S.
>
> For about a week now I've been trying unsuccesfully to solve the problem
> below.
>
> My machine was installed with 4.8-Release.
> The problem started after compiling and installing a new kernel to replace
> kernel.GENERIC
>
> What happens is:
>
> The system starts.
> Detects the AH2940 SCSI controller.
> The controller detects 3 devices.
> -SCSI ID#2 CDROM
> -SCSI ID#1 IBM 4,3 GB Disk 0x80 (probably recognized later as da1)
> -SCSI ID#0 IBM 4,3 GB Disk 0x81 (probably recognized later as da0)
>
> It then starts boot0 and shows the boot0 selection-screen.
> F1 FreeBSD
> F5 Drive 1
>
> Default: F1
>
> -Choosing F5 results in errors since that one isn't bootable.
> -Choosing F1 (in my opinion the correct one) yields the following.
>
> Having choosen something at boot0 the system continues.
> At this point it should be able to find /boot.config, but as I'll later show
> it apparently ignores it.
>
> It then shows the boot2 screen.
>
>>>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
>
> Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel
> boot:
>
> At this point I've tried entering the following things.
> X:da(Y,a)/Z with
> -X anywhere between 0 and 5.
> -Y anywhere between 0 and 2.
> -Z either /kernel or /boot/loader.
>
> The following options allowed a continued boot.
> 1:da(0,a)/kernel
> 1:da(1,a)/kernel
> 1:da(2,a)/kernel
> 1:da(0,a)/boot/loader
> 1:da(1,a)/boot/loader
> 1:da(2,a)/boot/loader
>
> All the others didn't work.
>
> Having discovered the correct input I assumed putting the same into
> /boot.config would solve the problem and would ensure I wouldn't have to
> fill it in manually every time the system boots
> (this is not practial sincec the system neither has a viewscreen or a
> keyboard) this however isn't the case. Whatever I fill in into /boot.config
> the result remains the same. The system tries to boot
> tells me twice "Invalid partition' followed by "Can't find /kernel".
>
> I've reinstalled boot0, boot1 and boot2 to no effect. Reïnstalling FreeBSD
> from scratch and making another kernel resulted in the same problem.
>
> My guts tell me the problems lies in boot0 or boot1's apparent inabillity to
> execute the correct value specified in /boot.config but I can't find any
> cause for this.
> Has anyone got any ideas on how to resolve this problem or where to find
> additional documentation since I can't find enough information in the
> Handbook to determine whether the problem indeed lies in the system's
> inabillity to find /boot.config?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Frank Masolijn
>
> PS. Below anyone interested will find all information I think might be
> required. (If somethings missing please mail me.)
>
> DMESG
> 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 4.8-RELEASE #1: Mon Sep 1 18:47:33 CEST 2003
> kalizec at qequoia:/usr/src/sys/compile/QEQUOIA
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (233.87-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x633 Stepping = 3
>
> Features=0x80f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,M
> MX>
> real memory = 100663296 (98304K bytes)
> avail memory = 94269440 (92060K bytes)
> Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0392000.
> Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
> md0: Malloc disk
> Using $PIR table, 6 entries at 0xc00fda50
> npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> pcib0: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
> pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> agp0: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff
> at device 0.0 on pci0
> pcib1: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
> isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> at device 7.1 on pci0
> atapci0: ATA channel disabled by BIOS
> pci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> at 7.2 irq 15
> chip0: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0x5f00-0x5f0f at
> device 7.3 on pci0
> rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0x6800-0x68ff mem
> 0xef000000-0xef0000ff irq 15 at device 9.0 on pci0
> rl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:fc:2a:88:ff
> miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
> rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
> rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter> port 0x6c00-0x6cff mem
> 0xef001000-0xef001fff irq 12 at device 10.0 on pci0
> aic7870: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs
> pci0: <S3 968 graphics accelerator> at 11.0 irq 10
> ed0: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (ProLAN)> port 0x7000-0x701f irq 11 at device 12.0
> on pci0
> ed0: address 48:54:e8:90:55:96, type NE2000 (16 bit)
> eisa0: <EISA bus> on motherboard
> eisa0: unknown card ADP7871 (0x04907871) at slot 6
> orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xcb7ff on isa0
> fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0
> ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0
> 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: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> sio0: type 8250
> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> ppc0: parallel port not found.
> IP packet filtering initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding
> enabled, default to deny, logging disabled
> BRIDGE 020214 loaded
> Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <IBM-PCCO DDRS-34560W !# S97B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> Enabled
> da0: 4303MB (8813870 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 548C)
> da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> da1: <IBM-PCCO DDRS-34560W !# S97B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da1: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing
> Enabled
> da1: 4303MB (8813870 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 548C)
> cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
> cd0: <PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-32TS 1.03> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device
> cd0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)# Qequoia's new kernel
> cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
>
> KERNEL CONFIG
> machine i386
> ident QEQUOIA
> cpu I686_CPU
> ident GENERIC
> maxusers 0
>
> options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation
> options INET #InterNETworking
> options INET6 #IPv6 communications protocols
> options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
> options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep
> this!]
> options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support
> options UFS_DIRHASH #Improve performance on big
> directories
> options MFS #Memory Filesystem
> options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device
> options NFS #Network Filesystem
> options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as root device, NFS
> required
> options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem
> options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem
> options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660
> required
> options PROCFS #Process filesystem
> options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP
> THIS!]
> options SCSI_DELAY=5000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
> options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console
> options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor
> options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor
> options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support
> options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory
> options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues
> options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores
> options P1003_1B #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
> options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING
> options ICMP_BANDLIM #Rate limit bad replies
> options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev
> options AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT # Print register bitfields in debug
> # output. Adds ~128k to driver.
> options AHD_REG_PRETTY_PRINT # Print register bitfields in debug
> # output. Adds ~215k to driver.
>
> device isa
> device eisa
> device pci
>
> # Floppy drives
> device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2
> device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
> device fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
>
> # ATA and ATAPI devices
> device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
> device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
> device ata
> device atadisk # ATA disk drives
> device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
> device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives
> device atapist # ATAPI tape drives
> options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering
>
> # SCSI Controllers
> device ahc # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices
>
> # SCSI peripherals
> device scbus # SCSI bus (required)
> device da # Direct Access (disks)
> device cd # CD
>
> # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
> device atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD
> device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1
> device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12
>
> device vga0 at isa?
>
> # splash screen/screen saver
> pseudo-device splash
>
> # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
> device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100
>
> device agp # support several AGP chipsets
>
> # Floating point support - do not disable.
> device npx0 at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13
>
> # Power management support (see LINT for more options)
> device apm0 at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power
> Management
>
> # Serial (COM) ports
> device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4
> device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3
> device sio2 at isa? disable port IO_COM3 irq 5
> device sio3 at isa? disable port IO_COM4 irq 9
>
> # Parallel port
> device ppc0 at isa? irq 7
> device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required)
> device lpt # Printer
> device plip # TCP/IP over parallel
> device ppi # Parallel port interface device
>
> # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
> # NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs!
> device miibus # MII bus support
> device rl # RealTek 8129/8139
> device xl # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'')
>
> # ISA Ethernet NICs.
> # 'device ed' requires 'device miibus'
> device ed0 at isa? disable port 0x280 irq 10 iomem 0xd8000
>
> # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
> pseudo-device loop # Network loopback
> pseudo-device ether # Ethernet support
> pseudo-device sl 1 # Kernel SLIP
> pseudo-device ppp 10 # Kernel PPP
> pseudo-device tun # Packet tunnel.
> pseudo-device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
> pseudo-device md # Memory "disks"
> pseudo-device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
> pseudo-device faith 1 # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)
>
> # The `bpf' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter.
> # Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this!
> pseudo-device bpf #Berkeley packet filter
>
> options IPFIREWALL
> options IPDIVERT
> options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:da1s1a\"
> options BRIDGE
>
> DISKLABEL da0
> # /dev/da0c:
> type: SCSI
> disk: da0s1
> label:
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 32
> tracks/cylinder: 128
> sectors/cylinder: 4096
> cylinders: 2150
> sectors/unit: 8810464
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
> drivedata: 0
>
> 8 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> a: 524288 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 127)
> b: 524288 524288 swap # (Cyl. 128 - 255)
> c: 8810464 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
> 2150*)
> e: 1048576 1048576 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 256 - 511)
> f: 1048576 2097152 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 512 - 767)
> g: 5664736 3145728 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 768 -
> 2150*)
>
> DISKLABEL da1
> # /dev/da1c:
> type: SCSI
> disk: da1s1
> label:
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 255
> sectors/cylinder: 16065
> cylinders: 547
> sectors/unit: 8803557
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
> drivedata: 0
>
> 8 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> b: 524288 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 - 32*)
> c: 8803557 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 547*)
> e: 8279269 524288 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 32*- 547*)
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What does #/boot/loader.conf look like ?
Ryan
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