Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:11:42 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Subject: Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT Message-ID: <50E0D83E.7080205@rcn.com> In-Reply-To: <20121231002418.726f7ca2.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <50E0BFA0.6070702@rcn.com> <20121231002418.726f7ca2.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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
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