From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 20 19:46:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E42316A4CE for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 19:46:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6120B43D66 for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 19:46:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5718B72DDD; Fri, 20 May 2005 12:46:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A1672DDB; Fri, 20 May 2005 12:46:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 12:46:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" In-Reply-To: <20050518224120.2f3062df@dolphin.local.net> Message-ID: <20050520124619.X8229@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20050518153537.M87264@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20050518224120.2f3062df@dolphin.local.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: David Kleiner cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -current: unable to boot (bt_strategy X not multiple of block size) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 19:46:34 -0000 On Wed, 18 May 2005, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005 15:36:26 -0700 (PDT), Doug White > wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 May 2005, David Kleiner wrote: > > > > > > > > This is amd64 Asus A8N mobo, previous -current (May 1) worked fine, > > > I cannot boot even into kernel.old any more, the only option is > > > older i386 -current and maybe I can fix things from there. The > > > boot loader said i386/FreeBSD but I don't remember what it said > > > before for amd64 - it was happening too fast. > > > > Yes, its specific to amd64. There is a /boot/loader.old you can use > > just in case, but you need to break into boot2 to get to it. At the > > first spinny hit a key and it should drop you to a boot: prompt. > > Yes, this also occurred on my amd64 box. At first, I was totally > stymied as to how to proceed. I ended up booting from a 5.2 CD-ROM, > went into fixit mode, mounted / under /mnt and renamed loader.old to > loader (after renaming loader to loader.new). > > Thanks for the tip on how to break out of the loading of the new loader. > One of those tricks I had either never learned in the first place, or > had completely forgotten about. :-) BTW a fix has been committed, so things should be good again after your next update. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org