loader(8) question

From: Oliver Neubauer (oli_at_bronskill.com)
Date: 11/19/03

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    Hello,

    I just recently upgraded from 4.3 to 4.9 RELEASE by doing a clean install.
    While I am able to boot the system fully, I have noticed the error
    message "no /boot/loader" upon inital boot, with: "loader(8) metadata
    missing" showing up a bit later one during the boot process.

    I don't know about the second message, but I can definitely say that
    /boot/loader exists with rx permission for all.....I haven't changed a
    thing since installing.

    I've come across quite a few questions about this in forums and whatnot,
    but very little in the way of answers. Can anyone shed some light?

    dmesg follows

    Thanks!
    o

    Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
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    FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 19 12:12:57 EST 2003
        root@smpbsd:/usr/src/sys/compile/SMPBSD
    Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
    CPU: Pentium Pro (199.43-MHz 686-class CPU)
      Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x619 Stepping = 9
      
    Features=0xfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV>
    real memory = 234881024 (229376K bytes)
    avail memory = 225148928 (219872K bytes)
    Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0
    IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
    FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard: 2 CPUs
     cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
     cpu1 (AP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
     io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec00000
    Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
    md0: Malloc disk
    npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
    npx0: INT 16 interface
    pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
    IOAPIC #0 intpin 19 -> irq 2
    IOAPIC #0 intpin 18 -> irq 10
    pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
    isab0: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
    isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
    atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 ATA controller> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 1.1
    on pci0
    ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
    ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
    ahc0: <Adaptec 2930CU SCSI adapter> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem
    0xf9000000-0xf9000fff irq 2 at device 9.0 on pci0
    aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs
    pci0: <Cirrus Logic GD5446 SVGA controller> at 10.0 irq 10
    vr0: <VIA VT3043 Rhine I 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd800-0xd87f mem
    0xf8800000-0xf880007f irq 2 at device 13.0 on pci0
    vr0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:a1:a7:5b
    miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0
    amphy0: <Am79C873 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
    amphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
    orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xcc7ff on isa0
    pmtimer0 on isa0
    fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
    fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
    fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
    atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
    atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
    kbd0 at atkbd0
    vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
    sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
    sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
    sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
    sio0: type 16550A
    sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
    sio1: type 16550A
    ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
    ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
    plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
    lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
    lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
    ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
    APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
    APIC_IO: routing 8254 via IOAPIC #0 intpin 2
    SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
    ad0: 3098MB <IBM-DAQA-33240> [6296/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2
    Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
    Mounting root from ufs:ad0s1a
    da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
    da0: <QUANTUM XP34301 1070> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
    da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
    da0: 4106MB (8410200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 523C)

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