From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 3 21:19:24 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 9B483106566C for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:19:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp184.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp184.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD348FC08 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:19:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay28.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay28.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id BBBD01B468D for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:19:23 -0500 (EST) Received: by relay28.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id A004C1B4681 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:19:23 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.10.0.080409 Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:19:17 -0500 From: Tom Worster To: Message-ID: Thread-Topic: my slices are gone Thread-Index: Acp0M7o67NNXkTTbLU6SOVde0C5iJQAICRqdAAKZo5U= In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: my slices are gone 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, 03 Dec 2009 21:19:24 -0000 using sysinstall on the 8.0-RELEASE ISO Disk 1, i looked at the status of the disks and found some alarming things: the label editor shows no labels on either disk. that seems pretty bad. and the slice editor says: Disk slicing warning: chunk 'ad6p1' [40..409639] does not start on a track boundary chunk 'ad6p2' [409640..1464784583] does not start on a track boundary which seems pretty bad in two different ways. would anyone disagree that freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade has left this system unusable and the only next step is reformat at reinstall (that old windows routine)? tom > On 12/3/09 11:14 AM, "Tom Worster" 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.