IBM KVM on P8 saga: 11.0 CURRENT 20151229 r292858 installs but won't boot

[Luciano Mannucci]

On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:00:39 -0800
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted. Two ideas:
> 1. Can you disable graphics? The command line bits to accomplish that 
> would be -nographic -vga none. I'm not sure how to do it through libvirt.
Well, I've set the vga to "xen", to be able to connect to the console
through "virsh".
I think that shoul disable the vga: if I try to connect via vnc, all I see
is a black screen, no cursor.

> 2. If you boot again from the install CD, can you send the output of 
> "gpart show" from the install shell? I'd be interested to see how the 
> partitions have been set up on the disk.
Here it is:

When finished, type 'exit' to return to the installer.
# gpart show
=>     9  330165  cd0  MBR  (645M)
       9  330165       - free -  (645M)

=>     255  41942785  da0  MBR  (20G)
       255      1600    1  prep-boot  [active]  (800K)
      1855  41941184    2  freebsd  (20G)
  41943039         1       - free -  (512B)

=>     9  330165  iso9660/11_0_CURRENT_POWERPC64_CD  MBR  (645M)
       9  330165                                     - free -  (645M)

=>       0  41941184  da0s2  BSD  (20G)
         0  39845888      1  freebsd-ufs  (19G)
  39845888   2095295      2  freebsd-swap  (1.0G)
  41941183         1         - free -  (512B)

# 

Cheers,

Luciano.
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