From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 6 18:05:37 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 071441065670 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:05:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DAD8FC16 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:05:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman.lon.namesco.net (115.73-246-213.ippool.namesco.net [213.246.73.115]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n76I7ojW043250 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:08:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4A7B1B41.7090507@unsane.co.uk> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:04:49 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Identry References: <4d4e09680908061012q6ea8aeacm875c556eaea7a54f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4d4e09680908061012q6ea8aeacm875c556eaea7a54f@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 18:05:37 -0000 Identry wrote: > 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? Try downloading and booting the livefs environment (I think you need cd1 and the livefs cd or just the DVD) and see if you can mount it from that, if not it could be a controller issue. If you can then its probably your OS/kernel but at least you now have access to your data/configs etc etc not to mention you could try extracting the GENERIC kernel from the install media (use the install.sh script in the kernels directory.) Vince > > -- John > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"