Doug Hardie wrote: >>> The Thick Plottens… >>> I received the drives and installed them on a working system. The >>> failed system is structured with a single partition for the system and >>> another for swap. For some unknown reason, the BIOS got left >>> configured to boot the extra disk if its powered up. That turns out >>> to be handy. I can boot a working system with the corrupt drive >>> powered off. >>> Booting from the corrupt drive yields the normal hardware info >>> followed by the Beastie image and immediately by a multitude of lines >>> (repeated many times): >>> Consoles: internal video/keyboard serial port >>> BIOS drive C: is disk0 >>> BIOS drive D: is disk1 >>> BIOS 639kB/1037824kB available memory >>> FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 >>> (d...@zool.lafn.org, Thu Oct 3 04:23:13 PDT 2013) >>> Can't work out which disk we are booting from. >>> Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: >>> I was able to capture these by using a serial console connected to >>> another computer. The lines only appear on the serial console once. >>> They scroll by on the real console many time - all too fast to read >>> anything. Then after a few seconds of that, the screen goes black, >>> and the system reboots. The cycle then repeats… Pressing any key >>> does nothing. I even filled the keyboard buffer with spaces hoping to >>> stop boot, but nothing seems to stop it. >>> I checked and the freebsd-update.conf include world sys and src. I >>> rebuild everything after removing /obj just for grins and giggles. I >>> have installed the kernel and world using DESTDIR to put it on the >>> corrupt drive. Same messages again. >>> I now have the corrupt drive mounted on /mnt and am trying to update >>> the src again. Using: >>> freebsd-update -b /mnt fetch >>> updated files list show /usr/src/sys… >>> and updating to 9.1-RELEASE-p7 >>> freebsd-update -b /mnt install >>> This is running slower than molasses in January. Its run for almost >>> 30 minutes and only 3 files have been updated. There must be network >>> issues between me and the server. I'll let it run tonight but I am >>> going to crash now. Long day. More tomorrow. >>> -- Doug >> >> Have you checked the dmesg output, specifically to see if there are any disk >> errors, perhaps the hard drive is about dead. If you are planning to >> rebuild world and kernel form source, why not just use svn or extract the >> source from the 9.2-RELEASE disk onto the system. > > There are no hardware errors logged. The drive is only a couple months old. > Smart drive status is good. > > I tried downloading the src with: > > svn co https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/base/releng/9.2 /mnt/usr/src > > I didn't get Release 9.2. The first entry in UPDATING is: > > 20130705: > hastctl(8)'s `status' command output changed to terse one-liner > format. > Scripts using this should switch to `list' command or be rewritten. > > > There is an entry earlier for Release 9.1. but no entry for Release 9.2. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > > Hello Doug,
Here is a more recent version of the file on svn: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/UPDATING?revision=255900&view=markup Earlier today I also checked out base for releng/9.2 from the same mirror, svn0.us-west. My UPDATING file is outdated too. Time of the last entry is 20130705. The mirror told me that I had checked out revision 256150. When running "freebsd-update upgrade -r RELEASE-9.2" last night it gave : > WARNING: This system is running a "customcl" kernel, which is not a kernel configuration distributed as part of FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE. This kernel will not be updated: you MUST update the kernel manually before running "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install". > That might have been expected, but I have read on this list that freebsd-update will sometimes automatically replace a custom kernel with a generic, and in /etc/freebsd-update.conf I had the line: Components src world kernel . HTH, Cary -- c...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
