On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Chris <behrnetworks_at_gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, went back to my 8.0-RELEASE memstick image and after playing with > the GPT settings a little and dd'ing all zeros to the disk first, I > get a little farther this time. I'm seeing the following: > > ----------------------------- > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive C: is disk0 > BIOS 631kB/1832448kB available memory > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0 > (root_at_, Wed Feb 17 10:27:40 UTC 2010) > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf > /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x8924d8 > ----------------------------- > > And that's as far as it gets. Per the handbook, that appears to be > stuck somewhere between boot2 and /boot/loader. To me, it looks like > it's having a problem loading the kernel. As far as my suspicion of > the BIOS not correctly reporting the drives, it looks to me like the > bootloader is seeing them so maybe that can be ruled out. I'm glad to > see it get farther this time but this is still weird. > > Any ideas on this one? > IIRC the 8.0-RELEASE gptzfsboot/loader lacked some bugfixes. Try using gptzfsboot and zfsloader from -STABLE. MattReceived on Wed Feb 17 2010 - 17:15:08 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:40:00 UTC