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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:57:13 -0700
From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Subject: Re: No root filesystem
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>>> It tried to mount ufs:/dev/ad6s1a, which is correct, but somehow
>>> came up empty.  At the "Manual root filesystem specification" prompt,
>>> "?" did not list any devices.
>>
>> i had similar, but it showed devices
>>
>> reboot and it was ok
>>
>> this was with gmirror
>>
>> randy
>
> Apart from a hardware failure (which is possible -- try a liveCD based
> OS to see whether or not the disk can be spotted and read from), there
> are a number of commits that have gone in recently which could be
> affecting your system.

Didn't read the first paragraph close enough. Heh. Sorry 'bout that.
Just ignore the LiveCD suggestion unless the issue is sporadic.
-Garrett