From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 7 20:18:33 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 4CE5F106566C for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:18:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from identry@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f218.google.com (mail-bw0-f218.google.com [209.85.218.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C241E8FC08 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz18 with SMTP id 18so1632489bwz.7 for ; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:18:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9dhneRrWH37ukky3Vb3jezuX8PetJZnuA5+M2PUGk1I=; b=qRfnrhwCQ4xbU4ul3WtnxarW7ozYaLvX28x4dIn5fbaIWjqYUbinfXd0Uo+9pMnc/i evXcjb8sc2EKFNXz8k03oDrxcGt8gqYYp3pdas9MnSyXUfzGSn0fqZpi7sfSjk+6Zf0D hAXIC4r1DXdeE3ashCIxhGAA4X87/Uv0Zi+Oo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=syJEWrIWuQLkvEetouOcun8W0qHk1+a+SoCR1UBohtPhqJakThRvhWx6Xvy6cIaNaW oOznWug4qL5jOnuEQ837EeEiejILMt46I7+Dyj4pFi3wnbmyVT4MkBAVtGrjC7caL6Jt wKz9+Z8ROCAGfN8FIWW222f0Xeq+KFink92sQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: identry@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.123.83 with SMTP id o19mr3552769bkr.12.1249676311522; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:18:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090807165707.GA51779@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <4d4e09680908061012q6ea8aeacm875c556eaea7a54f@mail.gmail.com> <4A7B1B41.7090507@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908061733v21602321x252a7111a7648ad6@mail.gmail.com> <4A7C074C.9060303@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908070825h6f42e692t8cf0baa4f10f9cc@mail.gmail.com> <20090807154009.GB39621@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4d4e09680908070926y40c6463au2666fd0b085ab3af@mail.gmail.com> <20090807165707.GA51779@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:18:31 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 92e3a33ab6ed7219 Message-ID: <4d4e09680908071318p66a6e76bwedda5f88623e019d@mail.gmail.com> From: Identry To: Erik Trulsson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Roland Smith , 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: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:18:33 -0000 >> > I think you should start by reading the manual pages for fsck and >> > fsck_ffs. I would start with 'fsck_ffs -fp /dev/yourdevicenode'. Okay, back in the data center. I ran fsck_ffs -fp on my root file system and it returned with no errors. It just printed some information about number of files, used, free space, etc., ending with the interesting fact of .3% fragmentation. Then I reran it without the -fp and it printed Phase 1 - Phase 5, no errors, and again some info on the files. So, it looks like there is nothing wrong with the root partition. Which again raises the question, why won't it mount during the boot process? I'm going to try booting with verbose logging and see what that last line printed is... -- John