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

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

This failure is not so mysterious.  This is a case of the kernel not finding
the "aac" device.  Is this the 6.4 "generic" image I pointed you to the other
day?  That would be odd, because it should be booting a generic kernel that
would include that driver.  Try putting
	load_aac="YES"
in /boot/loader.conf on the disk.

But anyway, it got past the boot loader so this tells me it is almost
certainly an issue with pxeboot and not the disk-based loader.

Since you don't have a serial console make sure you are using pxeboot.emu-vga
from that pxeboot62a tarball.

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 05:47:45PM -0500, Cheng Cui wrote:
> OK. I used the "vidconsole" mode. And this time, it fails in the half
> way. 
> 
> But indeed, I have ### 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
> 
> Did I miss something? Please see the attached picture.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Cheng Cui
> . Frey Computing Services Center . Baton Rouge, LA 70803
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Hibler [mailto:mike@flux.utah.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 3:23 PM
> To: Cheng Cui
> Cc: 'Mike Hibler'; testbed-admins@flux.utah.edu
> Subject: Re: [Testbed-admins] Booting error in Customizing the Generic
> Image
> 
> The machine may actually be booted there.  The image is configured to
> use the serial line as console rather than VGA.  If you don't have a
> serial
> line console, go into /boot/loader.conf in the BSD disk image and
> comment
> out the "console=comconsole" line.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 02:46:03PM -0500, Cheng Cui wrote:
> > Well, this time it hung there with nothing happens when booted from
> disk
> > directly. Please refer to the attached picture.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > 
> > Cheng Cui
> > . Frey Computing Services Center . Baton Rouge, LA 70803
> >