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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Subject: Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:26:40 -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> 	Used csup (tag=.) to update the source tree as of midnight last night.

This seems to be discouraged today. Instead svn should be used.


> 	5) On rebooting, the loader(??) claims to not be able to find a 
> bootable partition - i.e. I get a screen that ends in "mountpoint  > ".

Are you sure this isn't the "mountroot>" prompt? It indicates
that the / partition cannot be mounted to continue booting.
Maybe you can interrupt at the boot loader and examine the
mount source for /, or manually set it to be ada0p1?



> Providing the presumptive value by hand returns "error 19".

No root partition, probably. :-)



> 	This is my first time installing to a GPT partitioned system, and I 
> have (obviously) failed to grok something.  I checked src/UPDATING and 
> found nothing which covered this.

That's why _I_ prefer old-fashioned MBR partitioning with
sysinstall which has never failed me. :-)



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
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