From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 6 17:38:12 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 0517C10656BF for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:38:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from identry@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f220.google.com (mail-bw0-f220.google.com [209.85.218.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839B58FC08 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:38:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bw0-f220.google.com with SMTP id 20so960001bwz.9 for ; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:38:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=5KhR9dDgd1w/84eIPa0ABp6oC+sG108O3AECwiqQD1M=; b=Aw5CUhD15qWKhbWcL9bcDa0NAg2DG+NXc4Cqzc+biydcNSZgKdKAXpVss/fnfEj39k IkIJZOI33QintP8EBEay2RkjUfjF8VuFbz/V10FmLjsLx+GKKt4gJvXrGb/bZrLzu6ZO DqcknXKnQx2RKbxFawKTFO12IqikmGieP6mO0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=n7jpeeYSIcCLW8489FqDcdiS2J0tUANowevcCFHSKlvI2ntbV4XekhSpLpvqqBCtrO fTVPzJsmDdq96kE44vRzezcMQxWqRMzlI+2Qwnl22pZxWDbTLVDK53J9olnIPlAKnRJd BupUnxLXbmktHguZ8PUNz9LPjID95/xOOgIxk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: identry@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.65.18 with SMTP id g18mr2271393bki.5.1249578742334; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:12:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:12:22 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 37bb143833ae6309 Message-ID: <4d4e09680908061012q6ea8aeacm875c556eaea7a54f@mail.gmail.com> From: Identry To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Boot failure 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, 06 Aug 2009 17:38:12 -0000 Well, the bad day has come... My primary server won't boot. I have backups of databases and user directories, but I need to try to get this server back up again. During the boot sequence, it freezes at the statement: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mfid0s1a I tried booting into single user mode, but same issue (of course). I don't want to just start hacking at this for fear of making things work... what is my best, most conservative next step? -- John