Freebsd 10 install kernel not booting.

[Adrian Chadd]

Would you please file a PR so this doesn't get lost?

http://freebsd.org/send-pr.html

Thanks!


-a


On 14 April 2014 06:08, Troyax <troyax at pholos.eu> wrote:
> Thanks for the follow-up Haowu, it didn't work in itself but helped me find a work-around. I ran the following (slightly different) commands on my USB image:
>   gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 da0
>   gpart bootcode -p /boot/boot1 -i 1 da0
>   gpart set -a active -i 1 da0 (with a warning message "gpart: attrib 'active': Device not configured")
> But it ended up with the same behaviour: the bootstrap stops (and reboot the machine) right before the "loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf" output message, which got me thinking that the problem may be in the stage 3.
>
> So I tried with a fresh fbsd10 USB image with only the /boot/loader from my fbsd9.2 (I mounted the USB stick and cp-ed the file) and voila, it works.
> I took a very quick look at the /sys/boot/i386/loader code, and the major (only?) difference I found there was the NANDFS support. But I don't know if it is used for the USB image and there are probably lots of other possible cause - it needs a more expert look I think.
>
> Troyax.
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:43:31AM +0800, Haowu Ge wrote:
>> Try this?
>> gpart bootcode -b /mnt2/boot/boot0 da0
>> gpart bootcode -b /mnt2/boot/boot1 /dev/da0s1
>> gpart set -a active -i 1 da0
>>
>>
>> 2014-04-11 21:54 GMT+08:00 Troyax <troyax at pholos.eu>:
>>
>> > > Hello, since there's no answer yet, and it seems to be a bootloader
>> > related problem, would you try the following?
>> > >  * Create a 10.0 memory stick
>> > >  * From your 9.2 environment, copy the bootcode to the memory stick:
>> > >    # gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot da0
>> > >  * Try and see if it boots
>> >
>> > I have just tried your suggestion, but the result is the same. To be more
>> > precise, BTX loader 1.02 seems to launch the loader correctly; but it stops
>> > (and reboots the machine) very early on loading the kernel.
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