Re: [Testbed-admins] Booting error in Customizing the Generic Image

[Mike Hibler <mike@flux.utah.edu>]

There may be a bug in the older 6.2 boot code.  Note that this is the boot
code that is on the disk and isn't (well, shouldn't be) related to the
pxeboot.

Go ahead and make sure the Linux side of your image boots and customize that
(part:2).  If that works, then we can go ahead and drop in a newer version
of FreeBSD on the first partition.

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:54:07PM -0500, Cheng Cui wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I met a new problem after I adapted the "new pxeboot62a" and
> "tftpboot-kernels-7.2" in the process of Customizing the Generic Image
> of FULL=FBSD62+FC6.
> 
> I have a server box Sun Fire x4240 (Adaptec RAID controller) as an
> experiment node. It has nVidia MCP55 network ports so it's better to use
> "tftpboot-kernels-7.2" in FreeBSD.newnode, FreeBSD and Frisbee to load
> the "if_nfe" module. Now, after followed the instructions of customize
> the generic image, I get a load error in the booting process of
> "part:1".
> 
> Please refer to the attached picture as the error message. And my fstab
> and loader.conf are as follows:
> 
> ### edit /mnt/etc/fstab
> # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
> Pass#
> /dev/aacd0s1b           none            swap    sw              0
> 0
> /dev/aacd0s1a           /               ufs     rw              1
> 1
> /dev/aacd0s1f           /usr            ufs     rw              2
> 2
> /dev/aacd0s1e           /var            ufs     rw              2
> 2
> /dev/cd0                /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0
> 0
> md                      /tmp            mfs
> rw,async,nodev,nosuid,-s256m 0 0
> 
> ### edit /mnt/boot/loader.conf
> *********************************
> pc1# less /mnt/boot/default/loader.conf 
> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
> console="comconsole"f  (press RETURN)
>  
> #
> # No stupid menu
> #
> beastie_disable="YES"
>  
> # wireless interfaces
> if_ath_load="YES"
>  
> ## want ACPI...
> acpi_load="YES"
> hint.acpi.0.disabled=0
>  
> # ...or no ACPI...
> #hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
> #loader.acpi_disabled_by_user=1
>  
> # enable ASF
> #hw.bge.allow_asf=1
> #
> # load Myricom Myri10GE adapter driver permernently
> if_mxge_load="YES"
> mxge_ethp_z8e_load="YES"
> mxge_eth_z8e_load="YES"
> ******************************
> 
> Please correct me if I made some mistake. Thanks a lot.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Cheng Cui
> . Frey Computing Services Center . Baton Rouge, LA 70803
> 


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