Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:04:50 -0500 From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade Message-ID: <C73D8412.14466%fsb@thefsb.org> In-Reply-To: <C73D4E25.14441%fsb@thefsb.org>
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On 12/3/09 11:14 AM, "Tom Worster" <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote: > after running freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade my system won't boot. it > gets stuck on mountroot and i can't find the magic word it wants. > > the system used to have two sata drives /dev/ad4 and ad6. they were > partitioned and sliced using the deafaults that sysinstall suggested. > > at the boot prompt, lsdev says: > > disk devices > disk0: BIOS drive C: > disk0s1a: FFS > disk0s1b: swap > disk0s1d: FFS > disk0s1e: FFS > disk0s1f: FFS > disk1: BIOS drive D: > disk1s1a: FFS > disk1s1b: swap > disk1s1d: FFS > disk1s1e: FFS > disk1s1f: FFS > > which looks right, although i'm not familiar with the "disk" nomenclature. > > entering ? at mountroot mentions ad4 and ad6. > > geom_mirror was being used. > > i've tried saying "load geom_mirror" and/or "enable-module geom_mirror" at the > boot prompt. neither made any difference. > > nothing i've said to mountroot works: > > ufs:/dev/ad4s1a > ufs:/dev/ad6s1a > ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a > ufs:/dev/disk0s1a > ufs:/dev/disk1s1a > > does anyone know the magic word? i'd be very grateful. and i'm not getting anywhere with fixit using livefs. it says: "ldconfig could not create the ld.so hints file" and indeed programs like ls fail in a most ugly manner. is there anything useful to be done with the holographic shell? the only mount i can find is mount_nfs.
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