From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 15 22:04:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD5916A417 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:04:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23FD413C43E for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:04:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1FM3vNl089349; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:03:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20080215160016.024cfc50@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:03:48 -0600 To: "Deian Popov" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: freebsd dead after attempt on upgrade from 6.2 to 6.3 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: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:04:10 -0000 At 03:02 PM 2/15/2008, Deian Popov wrote: >Hello, > >I'm pretty stuck with the death of my bsd machine after attempt on upgrade >from 6.2 to 6.3. Some time ago, I successfully upgraded from 6.1 to >6.2following the steps in the manual > >1) cvsup source to specific release >2) buildworld >3) buildkernel >4) installkernel >5) boot >6) mergemaster -p >7) installworld >8) mergemaster >9) boot > >Now, after completing steps 1 to 5 the system won't boot and stucks at the >following prompt > >bsd: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad1s1a >bsd: mountroot> > >the prompt has "?" command which shows available boot devices. The only >device present there is my floppy (fd0) > >I can choose to boot to loader prompt but have no idea how to recorver, and >more interesting, to figure out why that failure occurred? > >Any help is appreciated. In some 6.x versions the upgrade can go south. I had this happen on one server, and this is how I fixed it: I downloaded and burned the release iso. I booted the system from CD, then in sysinstall, I used the emergency shell. In the emergency shell I mounted my drives and had a peek. In my case I saw there was no kernel. So I copied the kernel from the cd to my root / drive. After that I could reboot from the hard drive, and finished my upgrade. Hope this helps. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.