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From: Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
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Subject: After sysinstall, F2 fails; wrong device specified for /?
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>Number:         58580
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       After sysinstall, F2 fails; wrong device specified for /?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    remko
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 26 14:40:16 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:    Mon Sep 11 13:51:29 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Mon Sep 11 13:51:29 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Chris Pepper
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD www.reppep.com 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #3: Mon Sep 22 19:30:41 EDT 2003 root@www.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REPPEP i386


	
>Description:
	After sysinstall for 4.9RC1-4.9RC4 (from posted ISOs), with our without installing BootMgr and/or setting the FreeBSD partition as active, F2 should boot FreeBSD but fails. Rather than loading the kernel from /, it immediately reboots.

	FWIW, sysinstall & BootMgr/BootEasy work properly from 4.5-RELEASE through 4.8-RELEASE & 4.8-20030801-snap.

	More history available on freebsd-stable@ under "FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available" & "Re: Final 4.9-RC (i386) available now, please help test.".
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	Install FreeBSD 4.9RC1-4 on HP Pavilion 7915 with NTFS (XP) on partition 1 & FreeBSD on partition 2.

$ uname -a
FreeBSD guest.reppep.com 4.8-20030701-SNAP FreeBSD 4.8-20030701-SNAP #0: Sun Oct 26 09:07:55 GMT 2003     root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
$ cat /etc/fstab
# See the fstab(5) manual page for important information on automatic mounts
# of network filesystems before modifying this file.
#
# Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
/dev/ad0s2b             none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/ad0s2a             /               ufs     rw              1       1
/dev/ad0s1              /c              msdos   ro              0       0
/dev/ad0s2g             /home           ufs     rw              2       2
/dev/ad0s2f             /usr            ufs     rw              2       2
/dev/ad0s2e             /var            ufs     rw              2       2
/dev/acd0c              /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0       0
	
>Fix:

	

	Unknown.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 11 11:25:26 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
Hello, 

Is this still a problem with more recent versions of FreeBSD? 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->remko 
Responsible-Changed-By: remko 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Sep 11 11:25:26 UTC 2006 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Grab the PR 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=58580 

From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, pepper@rockefeller.edu
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/58580: After sysinstall, F2 fails; wrong device
 specified for /?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:28:52 -0400

 	No idea, and I don't currently have any active FreeBSD systems, sorry.
 
 
 						Chris
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State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 11 13:51:28 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
The submitter no longer runs FreeBSD so he is unable to tell whether the 
problem is still persisting, close the PR with that reason, if someone 
has feedback, poke me please 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=58580 
>Unformatted:
 	
