Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-07 Thread jb
jb gmail.com> writes: > > jb gmail.com> writes: > > > ... > > Next problem: > the FB 9.1 dmesg differs on: > - VB VM > pnp bios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum > ... > orm0: at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff pnpid ORM on isa0 Correction > - on real hardware > none of the above dmesg: ... isab0: at

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 20:02:04 + (UTC), jb wrote: > Polytropon edvax.de> writes: > > > ... > > However, your transition of this knowledge to the terminology > > to be used in combination with _virtual_ machines makes sense. > > Maybe that wording is really not optimal. "Kill guest" matches > >

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Polytropon edvax.de> writes: > ... > However, your transition of this knowledge to the terminology > to be used in combination with _virtual_ machines makes sense. > Maybe that wording is really not optimal. "Kill guest" matches > today's understanding, but could possibly be formed better in > r

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 19:02:43 + (UTC), jb wrote: > Right, but the wordings are unfortunate and counterintuitive/misleading: > > 'Machine-Close-Send shutdown' means to 'shutdown -p now' (equivalent to > 'poweroff') of Guest, followed by unforced "Close" of VM. > > 'Machine-Close-Power off' means

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman infracaninophile.co.uk> writes: > ... There is no problem with interface em0, NAT, manual/DHCP config, and ping or traceroute. jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman FreeBSD.org> writes: > > On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: > > Next problem: > > when I am logged out from FB, and I do (I tested it repeatedly) > > > > Machine-Close-Power off the machine > > to cloce VM with FB, then on subsequent VM Start and FB reboot I get error > > msgs: > > .

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman FreeBSD.org> writes: > > On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: > > Next problem: > > I selected powerd service during install, but after boot, there was error > > msg: > > starting powerd > > powerd lookup freq: No such file or directory > > /etc/rc: WARNING failed to start powerd > > A

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
jb gmail.com> writes: > ... Next problem: the FB 9.1 dmesg differs on: - VB VM pnp bios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum ... orm0: at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff pnpid ORM on isa0 - on real hardware none of the above jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013, Michael Powell wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: On 06/01/2013 12:09, jb wrote: A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation env (VB here) ? If so, would it make sense to sanitize it to avoid offering install options that are irrelevant/inappropriate ?

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and this is how install offers to configure the network; but my host has Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Exp

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 12:09:12 + (UTC), jb wrote: > A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation env (VB > here) ? FreeBSD can only detect hardware "certainly" to a specific point. The idea behind virtualization is that it presents non-existent devices as if they were re

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 01/06/2013 01:51 PM, Michael Powell wrote: Michael Powell wrote: [snip] The converse may be applicable as well, that Vbox has configurability to know a little something about the environment for the proposed guest. When creating a new VM, you can choose BSD in the Operating System drop-down

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: [snip] > > The converse may be applicable as well, that Vbox has configurability to > know a little something about the environment for the proposed guest. When > creating a new VM, you can choose BSD in the Operating System drop-down > and then choose FreeBSD or FreebSD-64.

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Michael Powell hotmail.com> writes: > ... > What I have not done is > tried all the various partitioning schemes available under "Manual" config. > Possibly one, such as Dos MBR or BSD disklabel which I have not tried, may > be broken boot-loading wise. I only went straight down the GPT road.

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 06/01/2013 12:09, jb wrote: >> A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation >> env (VB here) ? >> If so, would it make sense to sanitize it to avoid offering install >> options that are irrelevant/inappropriate ? > > This is FreeBSD. It doesn'

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Michael Powell
jb wrote: [snip] > But I also could not ping: > $ ping -c 1 google.com > I have VM-Settings-Network > Attached to NAT > What is the correct setting here ? Vbox will not allow ping and/or traceroute type traffic through NAT. It states this somewhere in the docs. This normal to NAT. I've used bo

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 12:09, jb wrote: > A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation env (VB > here) ? > If so, would it make sense to sanitize it to avoid offering install options > that > are irrelevant/inappropriate ? This is FreeBSD. It doesn't hold your hand and wipe the

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:52, jb wrote: > Matthew Seaman FreeBSD.org> writes: > >> >> On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: >>> Next problem: >>> the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and >>> this is how install offers to configure the network; >>> but my host has Broadcom Corp

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman FreeBSD.org> writes: > > On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: > > Next problem: > > I selected powerd service during install, but after boot, there was error > > msg: > > starting powerd > > powerd lookup freq: No such file or directory > > /etc/rc: WARNING failed to start powerd > > A

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: > Next problem: > when I am logged out from FB, and I do (I tested it repeatedly) > > Machine-Close-Power off the machine > to cloce VM with FB, then on subsequent VM Start and FB reboot I get error > msgs: > ... > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ada0s1a [rw]... >

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman FreeBSD.org> writes: > > On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: > > Next problem: > > the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and > > this is how install offers to configure the network; > > but my host has Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Eth

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: > Next problem: > I selected powerd service during install, but after boot, there was error msg: > starting powerd > powerd lookup freq: No such file or directory > /etc/rc: WARNING failed to start powerd Again -- standard for VirtualBox hosts: powerd doesn't work --

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: > Next problem: > the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and > this is how install offers to configure the network; > but my host has Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI > Express, which is bge0 driver in FB. >

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
jb gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, > > host=CentOS > guest=FreeBSD in VirtualBox > > FB 9.1 installation seemed to be normal (there was a one page text at the end > that quickly disappeared, but could not catch it ...), Perhaps those messages I could not catch were relevant, because it seems that

FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-05 Thread jb
Hi, host=CentOS guest=FreeBSD in VirtualBox FB 9.1 installation seemed to be normal (there was a one page text at the end that quickly disappeared, but could not catch it ...), virtual disk was set up as ada0 ada0s1 BSD ada0s1a / ada0s1b swap but after reboot: No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386 boot

Re: Boot Loader Problem

2005-09-18 Thread John Do
Hi Gary Thanks for your help. I am perplexed and frustrated by BSD's bootloader :) >> boot0cfg -B -s 5 -o packet ad0 >> boot0cfg -B -s 2 -o packet ad2 I did't try those yet because I wanted to see if you could find a problem first. I'll try those in a bit. In the mean time I created a GRUB IS

Re: Boot Loader Problem

2005-09-18 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
John Do <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: fdisk, etc, looked good. > boot0cfg -v /dev/ad0 > > # flag | start chs | type| end chs >| offset | size > 1 0x80 0: 1:10x07 1023 254:63 63 > 40001787 OK. > boot0cfg -v /dev/ad2 > > # f

Re: Boot Loader Problem

2005-09-18 Thread John Do
Hi Gary and Glen, I have the output. It was sure tiring to write out and then type back though :) bsdlabel /dev/ad2s1: No Valid Label bsdlabel /dev/ad2s2: 8 partitions # size offset fstype [fsizebsize bps/cpg] a: 8191983 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 b:

Re: Boot Loader Problem

2005-09-18 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Glenn Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>boot0cfg -B -s 5 ad0 >>boot0cfg -B -s 2 ad2 I don't remember who asked what before, but you should also try: boot0cfg -B -s 5 -o packet ad0 boot0cfg -B -s 2 -o packet ad2 > fdisk /dev/ad0 > fdisk /dev/ad2 > bsdlabel /dev/ad0 I wouldn't bother if you d

Re: Boot Loader Problem

2005-09-18 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:00 AM 9/18/2005, John Do wrote: Hi guys I still can't boot BSD :( I have tried everything I can and bla bla read etc etc :( Here is the setup (I boot off ad0) ad0 - boot loader and Windows XP ad2 slice 2 - FreeBSD Install Exactly from the emergency shell do I need to type to configure

Boot Loader Problem

2005-09-18 Thread John Do
Hi guys I still can't boot BSD :( I have tried everything I can and bla bla read etc etc :( Here is the setup (I boot off ad0) ad0 - boot loader and Windows XP ad2 slice 2 - FreeBSD Install Exactly from the emergency shell do I need to type to configure the bootloader so it gives the option of