From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 31 00:13:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB8857F for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:13:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3728FC16 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:13:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.37]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 30 Dec 2012 19:13:09 -0500 Received: from smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.104]) by mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 4.3.4-GA) with ESMTP id BWA15350; Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:13:08 -0500 X-Auth-ID: roberthuff Received: from 209-6-85-139.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO [192.168.1.101]) ([209.6.85.139]) by smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 30 Dec 2012 19:13:08 -0500 Message-ID: <50E0D83E.7080205@rcn.com> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:11:42 -0500 From: Robert Huff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon Subject: Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT References: <50E0BFA0.6070702@rcn.com> <20121231002418.726f7ca2.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20121231002418.726f7ca2.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr17.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Robert Huff X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:13:09 -0000 On 12/30/2012 6:24 PM, Polytropon 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. I'm using this for ports, will convert for source ... probably in the next round after I deal with this. >> 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? Right you are; sorry, typing from memory on a different system. > 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? I'll try that. >> Providing the presumptive value by hand returns "error 19". > > No root partition, probably. :-) Duh. :-) > That's why _I_ prefer old-fashioned MBR partitioning with > sysinstall which has never failed me. :-) There's something to be said for that. On the other hand, GPT is the rising tide and one has to learn to swim sometimes. Robert Huff