From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 24 18:37:13 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 B06AB1065674 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:37:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from forrie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AC58FC1C for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:37:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from forrie@gmail.com) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so174678ewy.43 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:37:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:x-stationery:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=grPDf3wjBH1jhDP+8advWbnzNGI99Sl26gqhxTCUXWM=; b=f/FXGbsCz0gA2mpDtO4clrjQTWkBbvbW6JxOIRCIrevKCjdEFnTxSYVXbfSp2K/LZb ajpxr+2c65kOPFrIWwneKNXw6h06kKqHwcsI9EWmN41Qj6R2gmIEDz91PhpMEE0HsTkw c4ApoFtCbBxhzZitW/XcjpQEFXuywTj/+kAOA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :x-stationery:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=recuw+1QRmxTr/fbn8HZ6koTILeM421BJQVP683S1ug3NOPQb7p5YDZU/FSSJA7ijL ThJb9w4KuyRy8+CxPltNFZHJ6rR9E7TXO4d019U/B0MG3xNjqwvsdG+bO6jt/uxp+evR UC3Xmvf8IEBBf0lK9KBMZ3tcD4PP6w39cdlNA= Received: by 10.210.134.6 with SMTP id h6mr1741350ebd.35.1245867225263; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dhcp-103-0-46.de-dhcp.harvard.edu (1story-vpn-gw.dce.harvard.edu [140.247.198.51]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm270948eyd.38.2009.06.24.11.13.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A426CD5.8070000@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:13:41 -0400 From: Forrest Aldrich User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22pre (Macintosh/20090603) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Stationery: 0.4.8.12 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 7.2 system stuck trying at boot, trying to mount root device 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, 24 Jun 2009 18:37:13 -0000 I'm running a modest PC that has FreeBSD-7.2 installed (fairly current build from CVS). Today, I did a "shutdown -r" to reboot the system. When it returned, the console is reporting: "Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a" I've gone through and restored the boot loader, this works fine (it's back to F1 or F2) -- it continues to do this. I also did a proper mount, fsck, and umount under the LiveFS shell, which made no difference. Then I tried a modest binary "upgrade" just in case. No luck. After Googling around, and not finding much more info than what I did, I figured I would ask here. If I have to, I can ship off the data to another system (after I rebuild) and try to bring all it's functions back (but it's a lot, cyrus, etc). The other messages I see on the console include GEOM output: GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad4s1a is ufsid/blahblah then GEOM_LABEL: Label for ufsid/blahblah removed. Anyone know how I can rescue this? Thanks.