From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 16:14:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8422D1065675 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:14:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnubie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E528FC1F for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:14:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws6 with SMTP id 6so1745262vws.13 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:14:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=pbAS8G80lkmOA+e69jEjDqeXR34iFAmpRQ5i6i8vhG8=; b=LjSQ2eNi56zsZsR/xijHZpRifvHeark9W8Ksqd//3gBEEFP5G+Qjne/f4xV0I3SG41 Ik2zJ6Z2O2C63vO4x52WPkX0m/TMlQcTtUFmx8HYRBgFwUuwp8Csw986VR+6DRLtZHUM AKrfPh8SgU9A3mYIfoOvpmQK1Nwb94fY7ymTE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SX675/b18VEVKNoO7DgfzrxMkUbKdBWgrh6DTLtTNFekdgzOtB9h1zLROBRS2d4tIp Bka3922wmel5Gl9IOdGGqKIj9NUc5VFguqNQXRc/n8L8P6Sekd3QwXvhvjp5r0KBAVmW BJL8/ssQouIZYDhHmYmaUniLYxIhZ+6LtGrLg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.121.226 with SMTP id i34mr5875982vcr.10.1278000868161; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:14:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.90.212 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:14:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100701160622.GA98823@icarus.home.lan> References: <4C280435.4060603@halplant.com> <20100701160622.GA98823@icarus.home.lan> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 00:14:28 +0800 Message-ID: From: GNUbie To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: maurovale@gmail.com, freebsd@jdc.parodius.com Subject: Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0-p3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:14:31 -0000 Hello Jeremy, On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Kernel crash dumps are not enabled by default. =A0You need to define the > following in /etc/rc.conf before that will happen: > > dumpdev=3D"auto" Ok. So, the line "Cannot dump. Device not defined or unavailable." is already going to be an output of the kernel crash. Meaning, during bootup, somehow the kernel crash and since crash dumps was not defined, that is why I was getting that message I just mentioned. Moving forward, what are your recommendations in order for me to be able to boot from my system? Regards, GNUbie