Hello, freebsd-stable folks!
I sincerely hope I am in the correct place to inquire about a small
problem I am having implementing FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my AMD Athlon-64
machine. This machine runs FreeBSD 7.2 (amd64 version) without the
slightest problem; but when I attempt to load 8.0 onto the machine, I
can't even get sysinstall to put the kernel on to boot it. Attempting to
compile and install the 8.0 kernel from source code results in a kernel
which locks up at boot time after emitting a message stating "attempting
to mount volumes"; a reboot of this system results in a bootloader
prompt and an error message stating that no bootable kernel can be found.
Any ideas? Thank You!
Garrett Cooper of the freebsd-bugs list recommended I ask the above questions
here:
> Hi Sean,
> Could you try the stable@ mailing list please?
> Thanks!
> -Garrett
>
Any ideas as to how to get the 8.0-RELEASE running on my amd64 machine
would be appreciated greatly. If I need to ask elsewhere, please
recommend accordingly.
Thank You again,
Sean McCullough
Hello, nicholasbug! On 2/11/2010 4:34 PM, nickolasbug@gmail.com wrote:> 2010/2/11 Sean McCullough <wotan@frii.com>: > >> Any ideas as to how to get the 8.0-RELEASE running on my amd64 machine >> would be appreciated greatly. If I need to ask elsewhere, please >> recommend accordingly. >> >> > Try binary update (use freebsd-update). > >Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, the machine in question has no access to highspeed internet service and has dialup only. I need to be able to install the new OS from CD/DVD successfully. No disrespect intended, but I'd like to be able to live to see the solution implemented. :-) thank you again -- Sean
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Sean McCullough wrote:>> > Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, the machine in question has > no access to highspeed internet service and has dialup only. I need to > be able to install the new OS from CD/DVD successfully.Posting the make and model of the machine or at least the motherboard might be helpful. CPU and RAM, too. Are you certain the CPU is amd64? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
On 2010-Feb-11 14:00:57 -0700, Sean McCullough <wotan@frii.com> wrote:> This machine runs FreeBSD 7.2 (amd64 version) without the > slightest problem; but when I attempt to load 8.0 onto the machine, I > can't even get sysinstall to put the kernel on to boot it.How are you doing this? Normally you would only use sysinstall to install a fresh system from CD/DVD. Note that (at least last time I looked) actually copying the kernel to disk is one of the last steps it does and isn't explicitly selected from the menus.> Attempting to > compile and install the 8.0 kernel from source code results in a kernel > which locks up at boot time after emitting a message stating "attempting > to mount volumes";Is this the exact message or is it "Trying to mount root"...? Can you provide the exact boot messages? Either setup a serial console or use ScrollLock, scroll back, photograph each screen of boot messages, post them somewhere and mail a URL.> a reboot of this system results in a bootloader > prompt and an error message stating that no bootable kernel can be found.Can you provide details of your hardware setup? Motherboard, what the boot disk is (PATA/SATA) and what the physical disk address is (which controller/channel). -- Peter Jeremy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20100212/06dde874/attachment.pgp
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 14:00 -0700, Sean McCullough wrote:> Hello, freebsd-stable folks! > > I sincerely hope I am in the correct place to inquire about a small > problem I am having implementing FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my AMD Athlon-64 > machine. This machine runs FreeBSD 7.2 (amd64 version) without the > slightest problem; but when I attempt to load 8.0 onto the machine, I > can't even get sysinstall to put the kernel on to boot it. Attempting to > compile and install the 8.0 kernel from source code results in a kernel > which locks up at boot time after emitting a message stating "attempting > to mount volumes"; a reboot of this system results in a bootloader > prompt and an error message stating that no bootable kernel can be found.Can you provide a verbose "dmesg -a" from the system while it is running 7.2? It would be useful if you could also boot 8.0 with verbose messages, and mark on it where exactly you see the hang, as I don't know where the "attempting to mount volumes" message is coming from (I don't see it on my 8.0 machine, and I can't see it anywhere in the source). Thanks! Gavin