From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 7:48:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maiatech.com (maiatech.com [204.246.250.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05A637B41D for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 07:48:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from TECHY07.code-fu.com ([213.219.39.123]) by maiatech.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g04Fosc01306 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:50:55 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020104153329.00b13eb0@www.maiatech.com> X-Sender: msmith@www.maiatech.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 15:50:22 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Michael A. Smith" Subject: new kernel hangs while Mounting root Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Let me start by saying IAMAI (I Am Not An Idiot) (at least I hope not) I installed (8+ months ago) FreeBSD 4.2 on a Sony Vaio laptop and at that time upgraded (using cvsup) to 4.3-RELEASE. I've re-built the kernel a half-dozen times on this machine and it always Just Worked(tm). The keyboard broke in September and it sat around for a while until I had Sony replace it. I just got it back and could boot into FreeBSD (and Windows) without problem. I know it's my old hardware because of the BSD sticker on it. Now I'm trying to upgrade and can't seem to get anything to boot. I've cvsupped to 4.4-STABLE, 4.4-RELEASE and even 4.3-RELEASE (what it's currently running). I've nuked /usr/src and cvsupped the whole source tree from scratch. No kernel will boot. The build/install process seems to go fine (using either method). When I boot the new kernel, it hangs on: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a I've always been able to go back and boot from a known good kernel. Also, oddly, I've tried to install from scratch using a 4.4 CD-ROM. I get the kernel configuration screen, configure using full-screen visual mode and proceed. Then, then the boot process hangs at: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c I've used this CD-ROM to boot/install on other PCs without problem. I no longer have the 4-2 CD-ROM that I originally used (without problem) to install on the laptop. Any ideas?? Thanks! -- "When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." -- Samuel Johnson -- Michael A. Smith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message