:-On [20040907 23:02], Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai (asmodai@wxs.nl) wrote:
:>I should try and see if FreeBSD 4.10 or 5.2 installs and works.
:
:After booting with ACPI disabled I installed from my 5.2 media. I did a
:minimal custom install.
:Upon booting I chose F2 - BSD and FreeBSD 5.2 managed to just boot my
:installation at the same location I have had DF installed and failing to
:boot. (Somewhere after 125 GB on a Maxtor 6y200p0 on an Asus a7n8x with
:latest BIOS.)
:
:With both I can boot my 1st slice, which is Windows XP.
:
:Matt, I think you need to concentrate on the bootcode again. :(
:
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:Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(at)wxs.nl> / asmodai / kita no mono
I can't make heads or tails of it. All I can think of is that maybe
you are running a mix of different types of boot code? The 5.x
boot1/boot2/loader code is not compatible with the DFly boot1/boot2/loader
code because our partition table is larger. 'boot0' (the master boot
record) should always be compatible.
It is unclear to me *which* CD you tried installing DFly from. It might
be best to try installing the boot code from an official CD. I recommend
using a GCC-2.95 daily snapshot CD or the latest reasonably-stable CD
that I just rolled (dfly-20040907.iso.gz).
You can also experiment with just overriding the boot blocks and loader
binary from a DFly CD. Boot the DFly CD and use disklabel and cp to
install new boot blocks over an existing configuration, like this:
[boot cd, login as root]
disklabel -B ad0s2
mount ad0s2a /mnt
cp /boot/loader /mnt/boot/loader
umount /mnt
halt
[remove CD, try booting from the HD again]
If you are trying to boot a dragonfly slice, you must have dragonfly
boot1/boot2 blocks installed on that slice. That is, you have to proper
disklabel the slice, for example:
disklabel -B ad0s2
In the past we have found that 'garbage' in the slice can screw up
booting, so to be totally safe I'd blow it away completely and reinstall.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s2 bs=32k count=16
disklabel -r -w ad0s2 auto
disklabel -B ad0s2
... reinstall dragonfly from scratch on that slice ...
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>