From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 11 07:51:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6F91065695 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:51:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wotan@frii.com) Received: from smtp01.frii.com (smtp01.frii.com [216.17.135.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77B78FC13 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.107] (c-76-25-160-90.hsd1.co.comcast.net [76.25.160.90]) by smtp01.frii.com (FRII) with ESMTP id 81EC9EA4D8 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:24:06 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <4B73B1C7.1090006@frii.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:29:11 -0700 From: Sean McCullough User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Hello and a small problem with 8.0-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:51:03 -0000 Hello, freebsd-bugs folks! I sincerely hope I am in the correct place to inquire about a small problem I am having implementing FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my AMD Athlon-64 machine. This machine runs FreeBSD 7.2 (amd64 version) without the slightest problem; but when I attempt to load 8.0 onto the machine, I can't even get sysinstall to put the kernel on to boot it. Attempting to compile and install the 8.0 kernel from source code results in a kernel which locks up at boot time after emitting a message stating "attempting to mount volumes"; a reboot of this system results in a bootloader prompt and an error message stating that no bootable kernel can be found. Any ideas? Thank You! Sean McCullough wotan@frii.com