From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 22 19:12:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E057516A420 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:12:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ima_camper@yahoo.com) Received: from web30007.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30007.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8666743D45 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:12:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ima_camper@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 34883 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Jul 2005 19:12:55 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=bHE3AiC/U0jUaiTZ6VXQuxLnL4I01/ca1Cl0Usbopl+lNSYyby/Z1d4hucP4JAcdEKrCzwHLw0iwXJTnNo5WzhW/ztCsdIK2Uy4liqxmflb9uCmeXr2Kw2SgkyRb//pLWQgcytOQLNIY1rHXx5v2a1rIkaqrcXpvzL8p7uSa/bU= ; Message-ID: <20050722191255.34881.qmail@web30007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [165.107.42.217] by web30007.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:12:55 PDT Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:12:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Ima Camper To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <42E13E2B.60300@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't Mount Root 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, 22 Jul 2005 19:12:58 -0000 --- Chuck Swiger wrote: > Ima Camper wrote: > [ ... ] > > da0 is my boot disk and contains /. However when > I > > configured the disk using sysinstall during > > installation, I set it up as "dangerously > dedicated". > > Now I wonder if my problem is that I should have > used > > "bsdlabel -B /dev/da0" instead of "da0s1a" when > > attempting to install boot blocks? > > I suspect your device name ought to be /dev/da0a. > If you are at the boot prompt, what happens if you > enter a "?"...? Entering a "?" or anything else so far results in this: mountroot> ufs:/dev/da0a panic: Root mount failed, startup aborted. cpuid = 0 boot() called on cpu#0 Uptime: 1h59m17s > Anyway, if you tell it the right place, and your > fstab is OK, you ought to boot > into the system as normal, from which point you can > re-run bsdlabel with the > right device name. > > Otherwise, boot off of an install CD, and run the > command from a shell. You > can also begin a custom install and exit after wrws; > g just a new boot block > via sysinstall, too. Thanks for the ideas. I will try more when I get home. All I have available now is a serial console (that sometimes is at 115200 baud and sometimes at 9600 baud) so I can't try anything other than various iterations of root devices. Please send any other ideas to try if you have them. Thanks, Drew __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com