From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 10 04:36:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F03C91065670 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:36:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@webtent.net) Received: from esmtp.webtent.net (esmtp1.webtent.net [208.38.145.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E5978FC12 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:36:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.67] (media.rfitz.com [72.64.244.53]) (Authenticated sender: robert@esmtp.webtent.net) by esmtp.webtent.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 81C5BB82D for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 22:49:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B20748D.6000405@webtent.net> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:09:49 -0500 From: Robert Fitzpatrick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: mountroot prompt after hint.apic.0.disabled=1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:36:23 -0000 Don't know if that loader.conf change affected this server, I disabled APIC in loader.conf after finding it may be responsible for a slow clock on this VMware guest FreeBSD install. I rebooted for the changes to take affect and it goes now to a mountroot prompt, can't seem to load the root partition. I type ? at the prompt and it does not list anything after 'List of GEOM managed disk devices'. Can anyone suggest how I can fix this problem? Thanks, Robert