Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:53:53 -0500 From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade Message-ID: <C73EFD31.14519%fsb@thefsb.org> In-Reply-To: <C73EA9CC.144CA%fsb@thefsb.org>
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i finally got a 7.1 livefs fixit shell to work and i was able to mount ad4s1a. i fscb'ed all the slices on ad4 and they look ok. i changed fstab to refer to /dev/ad4* instead of /dev/ mirror/gm0* and got rid of geom_mirror_load="YES" from /boot/loader.conf. and i ran gmirror clear. none of this did any good. 8.0 just won't mount root from the disk. any final suggestions before i try dumping the data out on another system and use the old windows technique (reformat and reinstall the os)? On 12/4/09 11:58 AM, "Tom Worster" <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote: > i sent the following to -questions yesterday morning but had no luck. can > anyone where give me tips or pointers? > > tia > tom > > > after running freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade my system won't boot. it > gets stuck on mountroot and i can't find the magic word it wants. > > the system used to have two sata drives /dev/ad4 and ad6. they were > partitioned and sliced using the deafaults that sysinstall suggested. > > at the boot prompt, lsdev says: > > disk devices > disk0: BIOS drive C: > disk0s1a: FFS > disk0s1b: swap > disk0s1d: FFS > disk0s1e: FFS > disk0s1f: FFS > disk1: BIOS drive D: > disk1s1a: FFS > disk1s1b: swap > disk1s1d: FFS > disk1s1e: FFS > disk1s1f: FFS > > which looks right, although i'm not familiar with the "disk" nomenclature. > > entering ? at mountroot mentions ad4 and ad6. > > geom_mirror was being used. > > i've tried saying "load geom_mirror" and/or "enable-module geom_mirror" at > the boot prompt. neither made any difference. > > nothing i've said to mountroot works: > > ufs:/dev/ad4s1a > ufs:/dev/ad6s1a > ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a > ufs:/dev/disk0s1a > ufs:/dev/disk1s1a > > does anyone know the magic word? i'd be very grateful. > > tom > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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