From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 3 00:15:29 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629FC1065676 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 00:15:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6818FC12 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 00:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwe6 with SMTP id 6so4062327wwe.31 for ; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:15:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=95fXacBNHqVfLJJUYq4sQ+BMwDg0ehCIe+SRT5/ViGk=; b=BPcmUwnZo57NYiJnD/7pWiq+W08dyPpCQN4RoZ8YcBBrXqszzc4wRZX2o2cEviMTI3 r0ebA6GOuqs1+ob+Yki44xrTzoaMbfIa7bHnlh+DbG5hi1Kx4ufcdGgc/coPo5ck3Hlp ZwCbOClQ79SDkGh3DlAjOdIu2iHMLiFGMEMyI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.82.146 with SMTP id o18mr4197817wee.7.1309652127787; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:15:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.91.69 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 17:15:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4E08558A.7000101@my.gd> <20110628052446.89911e0a.freebsd@edvax.de> <4E09DC21.6070903@Haakh.de> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 17:15:27 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kurt Buff To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: fubar'ed it good this time... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:15:29 -0000 On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:31, Kurt Buff wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh 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 lo= ads >> the failing new kernel. So the easiest solution would be to boot an olde= r >> 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 > > OK - to continue, while I have a few free minutes. > > I have been able to load the old kernel by going to the loader prompt > from the boot menu, and doing > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 unload kernel > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 load /boot/kernel.old/kernel > > That barked about linproc in fstab, so I edited that out. > > Then, the next go-round: It complained about mismatches on > daemon_saver.ko - a version mismatch, so I've commented that out of > /etc/rc.conf. It also complained about linux.ko, so that's been > commented out in /etc/rc.conf as well. > > I'm now able to reboot cleanly with the old kernel. > > After doing 'freebsd-update install' for the second time, I still > can't get 8.2 to boot - same issue, only acd0 is recognized. However, > I'm logged in as root under the old kernel, though I haven't start > XFCE4, and don't have wireless running. > > This one is getting to be fun... > > Kurt So, I tried booting from the old kernel again, and then did a 'freebsd-update rollback', and that worked just fine. I thought I'd try again, but first did a 'freebsd-update fetch' and 'freebsd-update install' to get the latest 8.1 updates. That worked just fine, so I did a 'freebsd-update -r 8.2-RELEASE fetch' again, then a 'freebsd-update install', which went just fine, and after that rebooted as directed to attempt the second 'freebsd-update install'. That's when the same thing happened - i got dumped into the mountroot prompt again. And, again, rebooting and escaping to the loader prompt allows me to unload the kernel, load /boot/kernel.old/kernel then autoboot, and boot up. Same as before. Any thoughts?