On 06/21/15 08:48, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
On 06/19/15 02:06, Martin Husemann wrote:On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 01:50:12AM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:missed it & got snared, shouldn't have happened. I *think* (& I will know this weekend) the FreeBSD installer reminds one to 'ctrl-D' out, rather than rebooting ....The NetBSD one also prints hints to ^D or exit (but I don't think it explicitly mentions reboot). MartinWell, the saga continues. I made a block of time yesterday, booted FreeBSD 9.3R from a USB disk & wiped the 2 offending HDD's (wd0 & wd1) using 'dd if=/dev/zero ....', then booted into the NetBSD 6.1.5 install disk & proceeded w/ the install. I exited into /bin/sh when offered & fdisk'ed -iau0 wd[0,1] into 1 large partition, then disklabel'ed the 2 partitions using 'disklabel -R wd[0,1] <proto-file.txt>', which I attach. The file for disk1 differed only in comment & label, wd0 --> wd1 & disk0 --> disk1. I then assembled the RAID1 for root from wd[0,1]a, see next attached. I also assembled the RAID0 for /usr & /home. I departed from a RAID5 for /home & went w/ a RAID0. I followed the attached overall scheme (see README file) closely, except for different drive sizes & a RAID0 for /home (my *big* partition) instead of a RAID5 for /home/media (his *big* partition). In particular, I mounted my 3 RAID's under altroot, checked them for OK-ness, & created the fstab file in /altroot/etc to specify mount points for root, /usr & /home, as well as the 6 swap partitions. I also followed the last few instructions about setting up the boot process from the RAID1'ed root drive, copying /altroot/usr/mdec/boot files as described late in the last attachment. With everything looking OK, I exited from the shell & finished up the install, telling it to keep boot info as it was on the (RAID) disks. I rebooted, and .... got screenfuls of messages which went by too fast to read, saying something about boot media not found, install boot media & hit any key. I tried to do that on the fly, nogo, also tried CTRL-ALT-DEL w/ the install media already there, same thing. Soooooo .... I'm still in the drink. FWIW, the installer was mute on exiting back to the installer from the shell, but I did manage to avoid that foul-up this time .... Any help appreciated, any more info needed, just ask. It will be a bit tough to recover stuff from the installation, but anything else, no problema. TIA & have a happy Father's Day :-) ....
Well, I have an update. I finally figured out how to stop the scrolling text during the botched boot :-) (I don't have this sort of problem often, so I am a bit slow in this area). I hit the kbd pause button & see the following on the screen:
NetBSD MBR boot Error No active partition NetBSD MBR boot Error No active partition Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device ans press a key NetBSD MBR boot NetBSD/x86 ffsv2 Primary Bootstrap Boot failed (errno 2): Can't open /boot NetBSD MBR boot NetBSD MBR boot NetBSD/x86 ffsv2 Primary Bootstrap Boot failed (errno 2): Can't open /boot NetBSD MBR boot Error No active partition& so on, varying numbers of some messages, always the same order AFAICT. The 3 attachments in the previous message still apply, if anything else needed, please don't hesitate. TIA & have a good one.
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