Hello,
Well unfortunately in my attempt to upgrade some components on my FreeBSD 8.1 box login was totally busted. If you tried to log into the box either via ssh or locally it would compplain that lilnintl.8.so was not present.
So I decided to reinstall and have as of yet been unsuccessful in getting it to boot as I had the first time.
I have tried multiple times but it seems my current problems revolve around the FreeBSD boot loader.
I have two SAS drives and I am formatting both with FDISK as one large partition. On the first drive I am setting the boot flag by pressing S. The two drives are listed as ad4 and ad5, respectively.
When I leave that screen I get the choice of using either the Standard non-interactive boot manager, or the BootMgr FreeBSD boot manager. I have tried both multiple times and when I reboot after the install the system is not bootable. Generally I am installing the boot loader(s) on the first drive (ad4). I generally don't bother installing a boot loader on the second drive (ad5) but I have even in fits of desperation installed both there.
Using the FreeBSD Disklabel Editor I setup my partitions this way
I have been going through lengthy installs every time I think I have it right always end up in the same place:
Well unfortunately in my attempt to upgrade some components on my FreeBSD 8.1 box login was totally busted. If you tried to log into the box either via ssh or locally it would compplain that lilnintl.8.so was not present.
So I decided to reinstall and have as of yet been unsuccessful in getting it to boot as I had the first time.
I have tried multiple times but it seems my current problems revolve around the FreeBSD boot loader.
I have two SAS drives and I am formatting both with FDISK as one large partition. On the first drive I am setting the boot flag by pressing S. The two drives are listed as ad4 and ad5, respectively.
When I leave that screen I get the choice of using either the Standard non-interactive boot manager, or the BootMgr FreeBSD boot manager. I have tried both multiple times and when I reboot after the install the system is not bootable. Generally I am installing the boot loader(s) on the first drive (ad4). I generally don't bother installing a boot loader on the second drive (ad5) but I have even in fits of desperation installed both there.
Using the FreeBSD Disklabel Editor I setup my partitions this way
Code:
ad4s1d /boot 512M UFS2+S Y
ad4s1b /boot 512M SWAP
ad4s1a /boot 512M UFS2+S Y
ad5s1d /boot 512M UFS2+S Y
ad5s1e /boot 512M UFS2+S Y
ad5s1f /boot 512M UFS2+S Y
ad5s1g /boot 512M UFS2+S Y
I have been going through lengthy installs every time I think I have it right always end up in the same place:
Code:
Invalid partition
Invalid partition
No /boot/loader
FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel