Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:43:37 -0700 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: "Dr. A. Haakh" <bugReporter@haakh.de> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fubar'ed it good this time... Message-ID: <BANLkTikvMpkXxHryQfimqTOR8F3_GqeeLw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E09DC21.6070903@Haakh.de> References: <BANLkTimc%2B-Dvjpp9h0DYg8ofFt-Yr8DrMg@mail.gmail.com> <4E08558A.7000101@my.gd> <BANLkTimbCcsdGnNLWcYvEjQUy5EHWDbVjQ@mail.gmail.com> <20110628052446.89911e0a.freebsd@edvax.de> <4E09DC21.6070903@Haakh.de>
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh <bugReporter@haakh.de> wrote: > Polytropon schrieb: >> >> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >>> >>> Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs >>> bootables. >>> >>> I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... >>> >> >> Check if you can download FreeSBIE somewhere. It's a live system >> using the 5.x and 6.x kernel which should be fine. Next to two >> GUI modes (light, heavy) it also has a versatile "maintenance mode" >> for such operations. I have already successfully used this system >> for solving similar situations, for diagnostics, and for data >> recovery preparation. >> >> > > The loader obviously knows how to deal with the filesystem because he loads > the failing new kernel. So the easiest solution would be to boot an older > kernel if available. I don't know how freebsd-update deals with older > kernels, > he should still be around. First guess is /boot/kernel.old/kernel. > So get the loader-prompt, "unload kernel" and try "load > /boot/kernel.old/kernel". > > Andreas That seems like a worthy thing to try. I'll do that tomorrow. Thanks, Kurt
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