Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread doug
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: On 30 January 2013, at 05:16, Fbsd8 wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will no

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread Doug Hardie
On 30 January 2013, at 05:16, Fbsd8 wrote: > Doug Hardie wrote: >> On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: >>> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 >>> Doug Hardie wrote: >>> I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick.

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread Fbsd8
Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. It starts the boot process fine

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/29/2013 10:25 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: What is the system you are using? What external devices does it have built-in support for? In the absence of any data - how about trying an external hard drive? Why not remove the hard drive, use another system to put FreeBSD on the drive, and put

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread Doug Hardie
On 29 January 2013, at 20:25, d...@safeport.com wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: > >> On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 >>> Doug Hardie wrote: >>> I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on.

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-29 Thread doug
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. It starts

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-29 Thread Doug Hardie
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 > Doug Hardie wrote: > >> I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The >> bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. >> It starts the boot process fine and get

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-29 Thread Mario Lobo
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie wrote: > I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The > bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. > It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader > message with revision 1.1. The

Re: Booting problem

2006-06-29 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 14:07, Winston wrote: > I tried to boot via a serial console, so I modified/added the > following config files: > --- > /boot/loader.conf: > boot_multicons="YES" > boot_serial="YES" > console="comconsole" > --- > /boot.conf

Re: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)?

2004-02-20 Thread Rishi Chopra
Good news and bad news: Good News: System seems to have recovered. Booting into single user mode and running fsck worked great for / and /var, but did nothing for my /usr partition with all my data. After letting fsck run on my /usr partition for 4 days, the raid controller appeared to stall

Re: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)?

2004-02-09 Thread Rishi Chopra
I do not have the FIX-IT CD or another FreeBSD machine. Is there another fellow FreeBSD'er in the Bay Area, CA that can volunteer to help me troubleshoot the card as described below (e.g. plug in the card and break to debugger to gather info)? I can drive over to your place or you can come ove

Re: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)?

2004-02-09 Thread Rishi Chopra
Please see my reply below: Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:12:51 -0800 Rishi Chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's a summary of my problem so far: Server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from csh, ttyv0 and ps) when power was cut; server reports a problem mou

Re: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)?

2004-02-09 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:44:46 +0200 Ion-Mihai Tetcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:12:51 -0800 > Rishi Chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here's a summary of my problem so far: [..] > To summarize: > > 1. See if you have disk activity when fsck seems to be stuck. > >

Re: Booting Problem After Power Loss (fsck)?

2004-02-09 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:12:51 -0800 Rishi Chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a summary of my problem so far: > > Server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from > csh, ttyv0 and ps) when power was cut; server reports a problem mounting > /usr partition upon reboot. > > I

Re: Booting Problem

2004-02-04 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 22:35:35 -0800 Rishi Chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's some questions: > > If the server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from > login shell and terminal and no disk access occurring) does it make > sense that the filesystem would have had a prob

Re: Booting Problem

2004-02-03 Thread Rishi Chopra
Here's some questions: If the server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from login shell and terminal and no disk access occurring) does it make sense that the filesystem would have had a problem after being improperly unmounted? Also, how long should an 'fsck' on a 500GB par

Re: Booting Problem

2004-02-03 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:09:22 -0800 Rishi Chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I booted into single-user mode and ran 'fsck' - the latest output to the > terminal says: > > FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN > /dev/da0s1e > Last Mounted on /usr > Phase 1 - check blocks an

Re: Booting Problem

2004-02-03 Thread Rishi Chopra
I booted into single-user mode and ran 'fsck' - the latest output to the terminal says: FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN /dev/da0s1e Last Mounted on /usr Phase 1 - check blocks and sizes FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY Will fsck continue attempting to fix t

Re: Booting Problem

2004-02-02 Thread Rishi Chopra
Thank you! Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:49:50 -0800 Rishi Chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm getting the following error message during startup: /usr: mount pending error: blocks 16 files 1 I'm guessing this orrcured due to a shutdown during background fsck of the filesyste

Re: Booting Problem

2004-02-02 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:49:50 -0800 Rishi Chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting the following error message during startup: > > /usr: mount pending error: blocks 16 files 1 > > I'm guessing this orrcured due to a shutdown during background fsck of > the filesystem. Not necessarily dur