Re: Loader broken in Head?

The output of the loader is as follows:

BTX loader 1.00    BTX version is 1.01
Consoles: internal    video/keyboard
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS drive D: is disk1
BIOS drive E: is disk2
BIOS 639kB/2090660kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root_at_jerry, Thu Oct 25 23:37:25 BST 2007)
\  ( <- spins forever)


The output of 'gpt show ad8' is as follows:

      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6         
         40     409600      1  GPT part - EFI System
     409640  487463200      2  GPT part - Apple HFS
  487872840     524295         
  488397135         32         Sec GPT table
  488397167          1         Sec GPT header


----- Original Message ----
From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org>
To: Red Neck <kcender07_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
Sent: Wednesday, 31 October, 2007 5:21:42 PM
Subject: Re: Loader broken in Head?

On Wednesday 31 October 2007 12:10:24 pm Red Neck wrote:
> cd devices:
> disk devices:
>     disk0:    BIOS drive C:
>         disk0s1a: FFS
>         disk0s1b: swap
>         disk0s1d: FFS
>         disk0s1e: FFS
>         disk0s1f:  FFS
>     disk1:    BIOS drive D:
>         disk1s1: Unknown fs: 0x7
>         disk1s2: FAT-32
>     disk2:    BIOS drive E:
>         disk2s1: Unknown fs: 0xee
> pxe devices:
> 
> Where disk1s1 is an NTFS filesystem and disk2s1 is the Mac GPT, don't
 touch, 
partition.

Ok, so disk2 has a GPT.  Can you capture the output to show exactly
 where it 
is spinning?  Also, can you get the output from 'gpt show ad3' (or
 whatever 
drive disk2 is)?

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org>
> To: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> Cc: Red Neck <kcender07_at_yahoo.co.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 October, 2007 1:57:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Loader broken in Head?
> 
> On Friday 26 October 2007 08:03:21 pm Red Neck wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Within the last day (26/10/07) I've built and installed the sources
>  from CVS
> > Head only to find the stage 3 boot loader, /boot/loader, not
 working.
>   I'm
> > using a Mac Pro with 3 internal hard drives.  On one hard disk I
 have
> > FreeBSD amd64 installed, occupying the entire disk (MBR).  Using
 the
>  sources
> > from Head, loader just freezes after displaying its initial
 messages
>  with a
> > constantly spinning cursor.  To access the system I have to revert
 to
>  using
> > an older loader such as 6.2 release's.  I have attached my make and
>  kernel
> > config.
> 
> What does 'lsdev' from the old loader output on the box?
> 
> -- 
> John Baldwin
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