On Sat, 14 May 2005, rduffner wrote: > Doug White writes: > > > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I installed FreeBSD5.4 on a server with a 3ware 7006-2 controller and > >> two 120GB disks as RAID1 > >> I cannot boot this install. (I get some kind of panic or endless loop, > >> but the display is re-painted so fast I cannot read it). > >> What I *can* do is insert my SuSE9.2-pro cd1, boot from that and at the > >> grub-menu say "boot from harddisk". > >> That boots FreeBSD. > >> > >> On advice from IRC, I tried: > >> # boot0cfg -B twed0 > >> > >> -which leads to this output > >> > >> boot0cfg: write_mbr: /dev/twed0: No such file or directory > > > > This is a erroneous message. The actual problem is: > > > > 484 boot0cfg NAMI "/dev/twed0" > > 484 boot0cfg RET open -1 errno 1 Operation not permitted > > > > This is a known problem with certain MBR layouts. To work around this > > problem, set: > > > > sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 > > > > then try your boot0cfg. There's a protection mechanism that sometimes gets > > confused by certain partition table layouts. Flag 16 disables that > > protection. I don't recommend running this unless you are explicitly > > trying to updating something in a partition table-like area; its very easy > > to destroy your system with the flag set! > > > I booted from CD and ran the boot0cfg "offline" - however, this worked only > on one server. I have two more identical servers that now just beep > endlessly at the F1-prompt. > I was told it is a geometry problem, but what else can I do?
boot0cfg -o packet adX -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
