From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 16 15:03:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9403016A4D4 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:03:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jwb@homer.att.com) Received: from mail146.messagelabs.com (mail146.messagelabs.com [216.82.245.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39BB943D49 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:03:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jwb@homer.att.com) X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: jwb@homer.att.com X-Msg-Ref: server-13.tower-146.messagelabs.com!1161010990!1488403!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.10.7; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [134.24.146.4] Received: (qmail 15958 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2006 15:03:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO attrh8i.attrh.att.com) (134.24.146.4) by server-13.tower-146.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 16 Oct 2006 15:03:11 -0000 Received: from attrh.att.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by attrh8i.attrh.att.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k9GF24S2021760 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:02:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ulysses.homer.att.com (ulysses.homer.att.com [135.205.193.8]) by attrh8i.attrh.att.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k9GF1svs021671 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:02:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from akiva.homer.att.com (akiva.homer.att.com [135.205.212.39]) by ulysses.homer.att.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17579 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:02:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from akiva.homer.att.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by akiva.homer.att.com (8.11.7+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id k9GF2xe12909 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:02:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200610161502.k9GF2xe12909@akiva.homer.att.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <12906.1161010978.1@akiva.homer.att.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:02:59 -0400 From: "J. W. Ballantine" Subject: slice vanishing 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: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:03:14 -0000 Hi, I've been running BSD, for several versions, as a VMWARE client on a persistant disk. Recently, following an update to 6-stable/pre-release, the label for slice that the system was on has been removed. When I try and boot the system, it reads and loads the kernel but it fails when it trys to mount the file system. Is this an issue with 6-prerelease, VMWARE, or some interaction between the two? Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks Jim