I really do hope someone can at least just point me in the right direction here.
It seems as though my system(s) are not recognizing the partitions after installation, and thus will not boot.
Motherboards are GA-6VTXDR-C with dual P III 866. (yes, old). I have 6 of them and 12 HD's, all HD's are the same Maxtor 300GB. These machines were running FBSD 6.1. It is my job to get these to be all identical. There were different partitioning schemes and various RAID cards installed. It is now up to me to make them all identical, exact replicas of each other so to speak. --Been at this now for about three weeks, and I am not getting paid by the hour.
These boxes are supposed to be dedicated to FBSD, no win of any kind installed, or ever will be running.
I am installing off of the 7.1 iso dvd. I can get the install going and completed without a problem. Very smoothly as a matter of fact.
The problem comes when rebooting into FBSD, after install. I get the following:
error 1 lba 392987935
no /boot/loader
After poking around the net, I have tried the following:
0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
and
0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
this do nothing. It still results in a boot prompt.
My actual root partition is: /dev/ad0s1a
fstab reflects this also.
Booting up off of the dvd I have gone into this drive and everything is in /boot and compares nicely to the install dvd.
I did try something just for giggles. took one of the drives plugged it into another i386 box, completely different hardware. This got me to at least being able to get to a mountroot> prompt and after mounting root, seemed to work. And then after altering fstab to point to the proper root, would still get me the same mountroot> prompt after a half a dozen reboots. And any dd of this drive will not boot anything else.
I hope that someone out there can assist.
Thank you all very much in advance.
Cheers
Murias
It seems as though my system(s) are not recognizing the partitions after installation, and thus will not boot.
Motherboards are GA-6VTXDR-C with dual P III 866. (yes, old). I have 6 of them and 12 HD's, all HD's are the same Maxtor 300GB. These machines were running FBSD 6.1. It is my job to get these to be all identical. There were different partitioning schemes and various RAID cards installed. It is now up to me to make them all identical, exact replicas of each other so to speak. --Been at this now for about three weeks, and I am not getting paid by the hour.
These boxes are supposed to be dedicated to FBSD, no win of any kind installed, or ever will be running.
I am installing off of the 7.1 iso dvd. I can get the install going and completed without a problem. Very smoothly as a matter of fact.
The problem comes when rebooting into FBSD, after install. I get the following:
error 1 lba 392987935
no /boot/loader
After poking around the net, I have tried the following:
0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
and
0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
this do nothing. It still results in a boot prompt.
My actual root partition is: /dev/ad0s1a
fstab reflects this also.
Booting up off of the dvd I have gone into this drive and everything is in /boot and compares nicely to the install dvd.
I did try something just for giggles. took one of the drives plugged it into another i386 box, completely different hardware. This got me to at least being able to get to a mountroot> prompt and after mounting root, seemed to work. And then after altering fstab to point to the proper root, would still get me the same mountroot> prompt after a half a dozen reboots. And any dd of this drive will not boot anything else.
I hope that someone out there can assist.
Thank you all very much in advance.
Cheers
Murias