From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 15 10:34:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808FA106566C for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:34:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ga9@york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw2.york.ac.uk (mail-gw2.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B698FC1B for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:34:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw7.york.ac.uk (mail-gw7.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.30]) by mail-gw2.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id o1FAYQ0S007699; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:34:26 GMT Received: from buffy-128.york.ac.uk ([144.32.128.160]) by mail-gw7.york.ac.uk with esmtpsa (SSLv3:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1NgyHa-0000Ud-EA; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:34:26 +0000 From: Gavin Atkinson To: Sean McCullough In-Reply-To: <4B747009.9000706@frii.com> References: <4B747009.9000706@frii.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ASCII" Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:34:25 +0000 Message-ID: <1266230065.39591.7.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: ga9@york.ac.uk X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: ga9@york.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hello and a small problem with 8.0-RELEASE (amd64) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:34:37 -0000 On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 14:00 -0700, Sean McCullough wrote: > Hello, freebsd-stable folks! > > I sincerely hope I am in the correct place to inquire about a small > problem I am having implementing FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE on my AMD Athlon-64 > machine. This machine runs FreeBSD 7.2 (amd64 version) without the > slightest problem; but when I attempt to load 8.0 onto the machine, I > can't even get sysinstall to put the kernel on to boot it. Attempting to > compile and install the 8.0 kernel from source code results in a kernel > which locks up at boot time after emitting a message stating "attempting > to mount volumes"; a reboot of this system results in a bootloader > prompt and an error message stating that no bootable kernel can be found. Can you provide a verbose "dmesg -a" from the system while it is running 7.2? It would be useful if you could also boot 8.0 with verbose messages, and mark on it where exactly you see the hang, as I don't know where the "attempting to mount volumes" message is coming from (I don't see it on my 8.0 machine, and I can't see it anywhere in the source). Thanks! Gavin