Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Robert Huff wrote: (While this may not be a strictly CURRENT issue, I asked on questions@, but have not found a solution.) Situation: One of my boxes failed, and for various reasons it became easier to just scrub and rebuild it. Like its predecessor it will run CURRENT 1) Using BSDinstall, I flushed then created the first disk: ada2p1 freebsd-boot128k ada2p2 freebsd-swap4g ada2p3 freebsd-ufs 25g (There are non-bootable disks at ada0, -1, and -3.) 2) Installed off the 9.0 CD, got it up and running, everything was good. 3) Used csup (tag=.) to update the source tree as of 00:01 on 12/30. 4a) Built world - OK. 4b) Build kernel - OK. 4c) Ran mergemaster - OK. 4d) Installed kernel - OK. 5) On rebooting, the loader(??) claims to not be able to find a bootable partition - i.e. I get a screen that ends in mountroot . Providing the presumptive value by hand returns error 19. 6) Boot using installation CD and use gpart show to double check device names and partitions; everything looks good. 7) Try normal booting again, no go. This is my first time installing to a completely GPT partitioned system, and I have (obviously) failed to grok something. I checked src/UPDATING and found nothing which covered this. What have I bungled, and how do I fix it? It really does not sound like a GPT problem, because 9.0 booted. The -current kernel can't find/detect the device. Scrolling back in the console buffer might find a problem. buildworld/kernel/installworld do not affect the disk partitioning, but can change the code that looks for those partitions. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT
On 1/3/2013 11:40 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Robert Huff wrote: (While this may not be a strictly CURRENT issue, I asked on questions@, but have not found a solution.) Situation: One of my boxes failed, and for various reasons it became easier to just scrub and rebuild it. Like its predecessor it will run CURRENT 1) Using BSDinstall, I flushed then created the first disk: ada2p1freebsd-boot128k ada2p2freebsd-swap4g ada2p3freebsd-ufs25g 5) On rebooting, the loader(??) claims to not be able to find a bootable partition - i.e. I get a screen that ends in mountroot . Providing the presumptive value by hand returns error 19. It really does not sound like a GPT problem, because 9.0 booted. I don't (at the moment) think it's GPT caused; but I do think it may be GPT related. The -current kernel can't find/detect the device. Scrolling back in the console buffer might find a problem. buildworld/kernel/installworld do not affect the disk partitioning, but can change the code that looks for those partitions. Exactly. I'm looking for help figuring out how the hand-off from loader to kernel got broken and what I have to do to fix it. One possibility: I believe I labeled each of the partitions during the gpt creation process. Can I use those labels to (hopefully) by-pass this issue? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: On 1/2/2013 1:57 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Robert Huff wrote: For a full clean install, I believe that bsdinstall should prompt about installing bootcode around here. I don't really understand from your procedure how bsdinstall was used; there might be some edge case where there is no prompt about bootcode. 2) Installed off the 9.0 CD, got it up and running, everything was good. Let me elaborate on this: 2) Installed off the 9.0 CD, had a fully bootable system connected to the Internet, everything was good. I think you should investigate the 'bootcode' subcommand of gpart(8). Does the above change things? It was my expectation installkernel would Do The Right Thing with respect to new bootcode, and I am surprised it did not. installkernel does absolutely nothing to the boot partition. You need to use bsdinstall or gpart to write the new image to disk. That said, I know of no reason that the boot code written by the 9.0 install would fail to boot head. I am running 9.1 on a GPT disk and it works fine, but I that disk is ada1 and I have booteasy installed on the MBR of ada0. It has no problems booting the 9.1 system. (Windows 7 in on ada0.) Then again, I am hardly an expert on the subject. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: On 1/3/2013 11:40 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Robert Huff wrote: (While this may not be a strictly CURRENT issue, I asked on questions@, but have not found a solution.) Situation: One of my boxes failed, and for various reasons it became easier to just scrub and rebuild it. Like its predecessor it will run CURRENT 1) Using BSDinstall, I flushed then created the first disk: ada2p1freebsd-boot128k ada2p2freebsd-swap4g ada2p3freebsd-ufs25g 5) On rebooting, the loader(??) claims to not be able to find a bootable partition - i.e. I get a screen that ends in mountroot . Providing the presumptive value by hand returns error 19. It really does not sound like a GPT problem, because 9.0 booted. I don't (at the moment) think it's GPT caused; but I do think it may be GPT related. The -current kernel can't find/detect the device. Scrolling back in the console buffer might find a problem. buildworld/kernel/installworld do not affect the disk partitioning, but can change the code that looks for those partitions. Exactly. I'm looking for help figuring out how the hand-off from loader to kernel got broken and what I have to do to fix it. One possibility: I believe I labeled each of the partitions during the gpt creation process. Can I use those labels to (hopefully) by-pass this issue? Yes! This is the current recommended way of doing it. cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/gpt/swap noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/gpt/root / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/gpt/tmp/tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/gpt/usr/usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/gpt/var/varufs rw 2 2 -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013, Kevin Oberman wrote: One possibility: I believe I labeled each of the partitions during the gpt creation process. Can I use those labels to (hopefully) by-pass this issue? Yes! This is the current recommended way of doing it. cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/gpt/swap noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/gpt/root / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/gpt/tmp/tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/gpt/usr/usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/gpt/var/varufs rw 2 2 To avoid collisions, I recommend people use unique labels on each system. I sometimes pick a couple of letters from the system name or drive: xfswap, xfrootfs, xftmpfs, xfusrfs, xfvarfs. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
SOLVED: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT
Using the GPT labels is a winning solution. Thanks to all those who helped, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2013, Kevin Oberman wrote: One possibility: I believe I labeled each of the partitions during the gpt creation process. Can I use those labels to (hopefully) by-pass this issue? Yes! This is the current recommended way of doing it. cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/gpt/swap noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/gpt/root / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/gpt/tmp/tmpufs rw 2 2 /dev/gpt/usr/usrufs rw 2 2 /dev/gpt/var/varufs rw 2 2 To avoid collisions, I recommend people use unique labels on each system. I sometimes pick a couple of letters from the system name or drive: xfswap, xfrootfs, xftmpfs, xfusrfs, xfvarfs. Good point (as usual). The example was from my laptop where this is not an issue, but in larger environments it is an excellent suggestion. I would put the unique ID at the end of the label as the eye tends to read from left to right (at least in most language so you can recognize whether it is usr or swap or home pretty much instantly. Sticking letters at the start make the most fundamental information harder to see. swaprxf xfswap usrfsxf xfusrfs Still, this is a nit and I appreciate the suggestion!.. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT
(While this may not be a strictly CURRENT issue, I asked on questions@, but have not found a solution.) Situation: One of my boxes failed, and for various reasons it became easier to just scrub and rebuild it. Like its predecessor it will run CURRENT 1) Using BSDinstall, I flushed then created the first disk: ada2p1 freebsd-boot128k ada2p2 freebsd-swap4g ada2p3 freebsd-ufs 25g (There are non-bootable disks at ada0, -1, and -3.) 2) Installed off the 9.0 CD, got it up and running, everything was good. 3) Used csup (tag=.) to update the source tree as of 00:01 on 12/30. 4a) Built world - OK. 4b) Build kernel - OK. 4c) Ran mergemaster - OK. 4d) Installed kernel - OK. 5) On rebooting, the loader(??) claims to not be able to find a bootable partition - i.e. I get a screen that ends in mountroot . Providing the presumptive value by hand returns error 19. 6) Boot using installation CD and use gpart show to double check device names and partitions; everything looks good. 7) Try normal booting again, no go. This is my first time installing to a completely GPT partitioned system, and I have (obviously) failed to grok something. I checked src/UPDATING and found nothing which covered this. What have I bungled, and how do I fix it? Respectfully, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Robert Huff wrote: (While this may not be a strictly CURRENT issue, I asked on questions@, but have not found a solution.) Situation: One of my boxes failed, and for various reasons it became easier to just scrub and rebuild it. Like its predecessor it will run CURRENT 1) Using BSDinstall, I flushed then created the first disk: ada2p1 freebsd-boot128k ada2p2 freebsd-swap4g ada2p3 freebsd-ufs 25g (There are non-bootable disks at ada0, -1, and -3.) For a full clean install, I believe that bsdinstall should prompt about installing bootcode around here. I don't really understand from your procedure how bsdinstall was used; there might be some edge case where there is no prompt about bootcode. 2) Installed off the 9.0 CD, got it up and running, everything was good. 3) Used csup (tag=.) to update the source tree as of 00:01 on 12/30. 4a) Built world - OK. 4b) Build kernel - OK. 4c) Ran mergemaster - OK. 4d) Installed kernel - OK. 5) On rebooting, the loader(??) claims to not be able to find a bootable partition - i.e. I get a screen that ends in mountroot . Providing the presumptive value by hand returns error 19. 6) Boot using installation CD and use gpart show to double check device names and partitions; everything looks good. 7) Try normal booting again, no go. This is my first time installing to a completely GPT partitioned system, and I have (obviously) failed to grok something. I checked src/UPDATING and found nothing which covered this. What have I bungled, and how do I fix it? I think you should investigate the 'bootcode' subcommand of gpart(8). -Ben Kaduk ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT
On 1/2/2013 1:57 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Robert Huff wrote: For a full clean install, I believe that bsdinstall should prompt about installing bootcode around here. I don't really understand from your procedure how bsdinstall was used; there might be some edge case where there is no prompt about bootcode. 2) Installed off the 9.0 CD, got it up and running, everything was good. Let me elaborate on this: 2) Installed off the 9.0 CD, had a fully bootable system connected to the Internet, everything was good. I think you should investigate the 'bootcode' subcommand of gpart(8). Does the above change things? It was my expectation installkernel would Do The Right Thing with respect to new bootcode, and I am surprised it did not. Respectfully, Robert Huff ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
