From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 18:38:32 2008 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 6FF4C16A417 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:38:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 304B913C455 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:38:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so168472nzf.13 for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:38:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=BUH/zTPfmzvJAaiHZOPb18iQk0/KiDbbfQ4HkvI66ZM=; b=uzdN9nd890Zr9AeVCElH26AbWr+9Tig4YGwMvgdyer9TzRJXa3e/NXFfgZ+alOeEceXthLhEG/vy2MuVn7zi0b96hVq2XLjyP9gUEns9rmg6X7l0iURl2aEnMS9cYPrIMi+y5O4bzjXjCPqcGJbe5KpSVnksa/TVjL9tNY4WHP4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=drQraSmDGTtb2iS+2kCM1nEv0sSbxCdY4Z0GQV7IJRXnpEsmezFzF0uKCdWtCez6mK81WL0urO0+JfOPVTGylA2ekR2EN4NWdzFup3lC3bYY9TrLXnqJ4fGt9Gra1ZQXfW5J9OpV2YNrrI81LHuNLeTfqc9esy8VSeJELkUtuHA= Received: by 10.114.149.2 with SMTP id w2mr1196369wad.5.1199903911036; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:38:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.52.14 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:38:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8d23ec860801091038i4878b8b1lbfbacbd8a4dbac73@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:38:31 -0500 From: Schiz0 To: "User Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Boot Loader Broken? 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: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:38:32 -0000 Hey, I recently upgraded from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7.0-PRERELEASE. I had some problem with the ports, but I got that taken care of. Now I'm having another very odd problem. I originally noticed something odd when I tried to shutdown from multiuser mode into single user mode. I ran "shutdown now" as root in multiuser. It said it was shutting down, etc. But then, it gave me the normal multiuser login prompt. So then I tried rebooting completely, and that's where the big error came up: ----------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@Mercury, Tue Jan 8 14:22:21 EST 2008) > \ \: unknown command - /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x29e868 data=0x2db8c+0x23814 syms=[0x4+0x34c10+0x4+0x43ef1] Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for a command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 4 seconds ... ----------------------------------------------------- Why it trying to run the command "\" ? Right before I did this, I rebuilt world, including the kernel. I installed the new kernel, and was moving down to single user to install world. Is my bootloader corrupt somehow? Thanks.