From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 7 15:14:28 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 BA70410656A5 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:14:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from identry@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f224.google.com (mail-fx0-f224.google.com [209.85.220.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F398FC2A for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:14:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm24 with SMTP id 24so1694051fxm.36 for ; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:14:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=HFcAn+unycw/7ROfHEdEOMbzxuX9nac59axmWjn67fw=; b=G2Cj2Gh7VCcMVCkwj21ECXYzR1mzSnMGH7y3sbBg58CD0G4BVU+ZB+7r0OwKeLOn8Y mIIXLw00sdZgrk34tgecMpBEv+cWIvIwons/vKFsTLqwlR6A7ItjOnMM7eD5GyvCW8Ch PzwYJ2A+zvxPpXZHGO9mqFgOio8y79NkuIF8A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AxQFFPnjJUXZyIIzwygx9adJYA5wkfDNRg1YI9sciUrc55JEtyswF0xq32kcMyavOl FnLO46fi8epEIO7XRrH8QYqBM7vtmHi6VZEB3mda9AYM/xex/GSgZu1mOSP/hWfldts/ Xe+K5KAj63YexnGwjnnEslBQ+6NJubjjhYqtc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.112.205 with SMTP id x13mr3250578bkp.170.1249657721400; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:08:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <991123400908070746t7f9ed6ddy77450aec98885618@mail.gmail.com> References: <4d4e09680908061012q6ea8aeacm875c556eaea7a54f@mail.gmail.com> <4A7B1B41.7090507@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908061733v21602321x252a7111a7648ad6@mail.gmail.com> <4A7C074C.9060303@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908070731u546d6dfck6c9b9b1d66e1e6fa@mail.gmail.com> <991123400908070746t7f9ed6ddy77450aec98885618@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 11:08:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4d4e09680908070808k38d2e4b0ke28c6c420deaa433@mail.gmail.com> From: Identry To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Boot failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jalmberg@identry.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:14:29 -0000 > If you did not touch the kernel, there is no need to boot GENERIC! Plus you > have said that this box is running PF, which is not in the GENERIC kernel! > Personally, I am interested in knowing why the system does not mount the > root partition on its own when you can do it by hand and it does not > complain. Me too. > Did you by any chance change anyting in /etc/fstab? No, this has never changed since original install. > What entries you do have in /etc/sysctl.conf? None. It is just the default file with some comments, but no uncommented lines. > Please try "fsck -y" option first although I am not quite optimistic about > it, given that mounting by hand works so far. Okay. > If I were to upgrade, I'd go to 6.4-STABLE first and wait there while > thinking about the next move. Right... I'm going to try getting this machine up first, before fussing with upgrades. > What does your /etc/rc.conf contain? $ cat rc.conf #$Id: rc.conf,v 1.4 2008/03/31 23:44:10 root Exp root $ # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sat Dec 1 16:23:45 2007 # Created: Sat Dec 1 16:23:45 2007 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. defaultrouter="66.111.0.193" hostname="on.identry.com" keyrate="fast" moused_enable="YES" monit_enable="YES" ntpd_enable="YES" ntpd_program="/usr/sbin/ntpd" ntpd_config="/etc/ntp.conf" ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" ntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid" saver="green" pf_enable="YES" pf_rules="/etc/pf.conf" pf_flags="" # additional flags for pfctl startup pflog_enable="YES" pflog_logfile="/var/log/pflog" pflog_flags="" # additional flags for pflogd startup sshd_enable="YES" #inetd_enable="YES" usbd_enable="YES" mysql_enable="YES" apache22_enable="YES" apache22_flags="-DSSL" apache22_http_accept_enable="YES" sendmail_enable="NONE" spamd_enable="YES" spamd_flags="-v -x -u vpopmail" courier_authdaemond_enable="YES" courier_imap_imapd_enable="YES" courier_imap_imapdssl_enable="YES" courier_imap_imapd_ssl_enable="YES" courier_imap_pop3d_enable="YES" courier_imap_pop3dssl_enable="YES" courier_imap_pop3d_ssl_enable="YES" clamav_clamd_enable="YES" clamav_freshclam_enable="YES" svscan_enable="YES" snmpd_enable="NO" pureftpd_enable="YES" autossh_enable="YES" mongrel_cluster_enable="YES" mongrel_cluster_config="/usr/local/etc/mongrel_cluster" # added by xorg-libraries port local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d"