From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 4 22:54:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F2D1065696 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:54:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp235.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp235.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E769A8FC08 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay13.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay13.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 5AFF41CCDC5 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:53:59 -0500 (EST) Received: by relay13.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id 44E321CC3C7 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:53:59 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.10.0.080409 Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:53:53 -0500 From: Tom Worster To: Message-ID: Thread-Topic: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade Thread-Index: Acp1AvHDo7w6hsFhI0mIodZPMDtNUgAMbT9q In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:54:00 -0000 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" 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"