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Subject: After 3.1-RELEASE install, it can't boot.
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>Number:         10208
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       After 3.1-RELEASE install, it can't boot.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    rnordier
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 22 10:30:00 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:    Sat Mar 6 18:34:22 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:  Sat Mar  6 18:37:17 PST 1999
>Originator:     Robert Martin-Legne
>Release:        3.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
L.M. Ericsson A/S
>Environment:
Never got it running. It was the release found
on ftp2.dk.. and ftp.freebsd.org on 19990218-19990219
>Description:
Tried upgrading first, as I never actually upgraded anything, but rather
reinstalled (I don't trust upgrades to upgrade enough, and it's never
certain exactly what it upgrades).
  After exiting sysinstall it wanted to reboot.. fine with me, but when
it tried to find the kernel it said it was invalid or couldn't find it
or so (I didn't pay particular attention to the error message).
  I thought it was just the upgrade that failed and tried a complete
reinstall (repartitioning etc).
  Every time I rebooted the boot manager said F1: FreeBSD as it should,
but it also said F5: Drive0 (there abouts). When I made a second (spare,
unused) partition on the machine, the F5 was replaced with F2: FreeBSD
but it still didn't work.
  I never got past the boot manager after the full installations. It
would wait for me to press something.. I pressed F1 and it said beep.
I pressed a lot of buttons, but ended up filling up the BIOS keybuffer
making the computer beep.
  After 8 reinstallations from various sources and with different disk
setup, I went back to 3.0-RELEASE to have a working system.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install 3.1-RELEASE unless someone fixed it.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To: robert@ircnet.dk
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/10208: After 3.1-RELEASE install, it can't boot.
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:53:23 +0900

 >   Every time I rebooted the boot manager said F1: FreeBSD as it should,
 > but it also said F5: Drive0 (there abouts). When I made a second (spare,
 > unused) partition on the machine, the F5 was replaced with F2: FreeBSD
 > but it still didn't work.
 
 If F5: Drive 0 shows up, type that before F1.
 
 >   After exiting sysinstall it wanted to reboot.. fine with me, but when
 > it tried to find the kernel it said it was invalid or couldn't find it
 > or so (I didn't pay particular attention to the error message).
 
 I hope you realize you ought to have paid attention.
 
 Try entering /boot/loader at the kernel loader's prompt if this
 message reappears. If it works, you have to install the new boot
 blocks. You can do that by typing:
 
 disklabel -B wd0 (or da0, if you are using SCSI).
 
 --
 Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
 dcs@newsguy.com
 dcs@freebsd.org
 
 	"To make it absolutely clear: you stand on the wrong end of my
 blasters, so you better get lost before I start target practice!"
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: rnordier 
State-Changed-When: Fri Feb 26 09:28:58 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Use requested to test boot0 workaround. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->rnordier 
Responsible-Changed-By: rnordier 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Feb 26 09:28:58 PST 1999 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'm handling this. 

From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To: robert@ircnet.dk
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/10208: After 3.1-RELEASE install, it can't boot.
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 19:30:06 +0200 (SAT)

 robert@ircnet.dk wrote:
  
 > >Number:         10208
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       After 3.1-RELEASE install, it can't boot.
 
 > >Description:
 > Tried upgrading first, as I never actually upgraded anything, but rather
 > reinstalled (I don't trust upgrades to upgrade enough, and it's never
 > certain exactly what it upgrades).
 >   After exiting sysinstall it wanted to reboot.. fine with me, but when
 > it tried to find the kernel it said it was invalid or couldn't find it
 > or so (I didn't pay particular attention to the error message).
 >   I thought it was just the upgrade that failed and tried a complete
 > reinstall (repartitioning etc).
 >   Every time I rebooted the boot manager said F1: FreeBSD as it should,
 > but it also said F5: Drive0 (there abouts). When I made a second (spare,
 > unused) partition on the machine, the F5 was replaced with F2: FreeBSD
 > but it still didn't work.
 >   I never got past the boot manager after the full installations. It
 > would wait for me to press something.. I pressed F1 and it said beep.
 > I pressed a lot of buttons, but ended up filling up the BIOS keybuffer
 > making the computer beep.
 
 There is a (probable) fix for this problem available:
 
     http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot0-1.7.tar.gz
 
 Please consult the README file for details.
 
 -- 
 Robert Nordier
 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: rnordier 
State-Changed-When: Sat Mar 6 18:34:22 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
The originator of PR 10235 reported that rev 1.7 of boot0 resolves 
this issue. 
>Unformatted:
