From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 14:00:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C9116A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:00:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D331943FF2 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:00:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F12C81FF903 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 23:00:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id 737F41FF8FA; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 23:00:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix, from userid 1060) id 9C24A154F2; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 22:00:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997F2154E2 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 22:00:37 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 22:00:37 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 Subject: Manual root filesystem specification -> '?' -> panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 22:00:56 -0000 Hi, '?' should show list of possible boot devices but this doesn't seem to work with a src update from around 20031105-2024 UTC: --- cut --- ... Manual root filesystem specification: : Mount using filesystem eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices Abort manual input mountroot> ? panic: Root mount failed, startup aborted. syncing disks, buffers remaining... done Uptime: 1m23s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort --> Press a key on the console to reboot, --> or switch off the system now. Rebooting... --- cut --- I tired multiple ties to ensure I only have a '?' as very first character and only entered via serial console. Any ideas ? -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT 56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/