From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 09:40:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F54E106567B for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:40:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kent@khauser.net) Received: from po-out-1718.google.com (po-out-1718.google.com [72.14.252.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11B258FC16 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:40:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kent@khauser.net) Received: by po-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id c31so15706186poi.3 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:40:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.249.20 with SMTP id w20mr12402385rvh.103.1214213055453; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.76.8 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6004effe0806230224v56db42d1r4414db5ca2471cb3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:24:15 -1000 From: "Kent Hauser" To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Fixit / LiveFS problems (AMD64) 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: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:40:44 -0000 I recently rebuild a 7-STABLE which refused to boot & then ran into some problems trying to recover. 1) After escaping to the loader prompt, I could only enter a couple of characters (eg 2) before the machine hung. Not enough for the "unload / load" dance. 2) After booting from the downloaded 7-RELEASE install ISO (AMD64), I find the emergency shell doesn't have mount_ufs, just mount_nfs. Also, no /rescue directory. I don't know if this is by design, but how does one mount root or any other local disk partition? 3) After downloading & burning the 7-RELEASE LiveFS ISO (AMD64), I find fixit told me ld.so-hints could not be created & dynamicly linked programs wouldn't run -- and they didn't. 4) So I reinstalled, only newfs'ing /root & pulled the appropriate files from a backup. What am I missing? This is a dual-boot VISTA machine with easybcd boot sector. I don't know what to make of problem 1), but the others seem release-engineering related. Thanks. Kent