From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 16 22:17:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88A1E16A4CE for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:17:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C7A643D1F for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:17:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j3GMHrpF031252 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:17:54 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:17:52 -0500 To: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.4 Subject: Latest kernel doesn't work on PPC? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:17:55 -0000 Well, I rebuilt my PPC system for the first time in a few weeks. I rebooted to the new kernel, and ... it doesn't work. It can't find my root filesystem. It tries to mount root from /dev/ad0s5 (which is correct for my system), but fails. So, I get the mountroot> prompt. If I type '?' to that, it says "List of GEOM managed disk devices:", but it shows no devices in that list. I think at this point I'm stuck, needing to re-install. I still see that bug in the loader, where trying to load any kernel will cause that kernel to panic immediately at startup. So I can't unload load /boot/kernel.old/kernel in the boot loader. I tried booting up off the CD-ROM I used for my original install. My idea was that I would start an emergency holographic shell, mount my ad0s5 partition, and move /boot/kernel.old back to being /boot/kernel. But it seems that CD (the miniinst.iso from Dec 29th) doesn't have the mount command? It has mount_nfs and mount_msdosfs, but those won't do much for me! Am I missing something obvious here? Is there any simple way for me to get back to the kernel which had been working for me? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu