Sergey Listopad <psychosensor <at> gmail.com> writes:
> ...
> As you can see, bootstrap process stuck much earlier kernel
> booting/root mounting. It stuck on loader stage (loader can't do
> something. But what exactly?)
>
> I've been able to boot system manually (so system on HDD is workable),
> by skipping loader stage (boot kernel directly from boot block prompt)
> >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
> Default: 0:ad(0p2)/boot/loader
> boot:/boot/kernel/kernel
>
> and then
> mountroot> ufs:/dev/da0p2
Some remarks that may be helpful.
fdisk(8)
...
In order for the BIOS to boot the kernel, certain conventions must be
adhered to. Sector 0 of the disk must contain boot code, a slice table,
and a magic number. BIOS slices can be used to break the disk up into
several pieces. The BIOS brings in sector 0 and verifies the magic num-
ber. The sector 0 boot code then searches the slice table to determine
which slice is marked ``active''. This boot code then brings in the
bootstrap from the active slice and, if marked bootable, runs it. ...
boot0cfg(8) -- boot manager installation/configuration utility
To see the first 512 bytes of your first harddisk:
# dd if=/dev/ada0 count=1 | hexdump -C
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-trouble.html
... here is this weird BIOS, IDE, SCSI disk numbering stuff ...
jb
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