From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 17:23:41 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 23B75106566C for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:23:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ssanbeg@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f54.google.com (mail-pw0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF52B8FC1F for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:23:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj9 with SMTP id 9so271401pwj.13 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:23:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:references :in-reply-to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:thread-index:x-mimeole; bh=WsA6ETvg5IYDhbIWAMhGRqhx7X7Lb7KU3zJBy7tQFKo=; b=po+MfLRvsA65IDksC+LLdaVjATRP96m4MirCbJGAwbrIlACBDXTVYIxYCDjVUWVmV5 l1F7WnSqvczQDHmbBG6f012Da0AGjS+vvpigIgS38HD9tmwqukAF0w19s8qvpIJWqY59 XE4vPC1Py3kKLcycS2Bw+YF6fOuQmMAHk9FhU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:references:in-reply-to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:thread-index :x-mimeole; b=YVE5UXgq1mJh5b0D2MvxzfNQv96MNxPY4KeHImzau0K+88Ja6hWWNg1k3pgfqvJ0A8 bimC1OOtHJmtrRxJ+Uznj/h0oDcoICcbX1+PESJqDGQ1oplrORlqZ+GwrVcFKM0kX1wd jmALG00ZIfh3kqeK1iryZFQF+1efGtcFH6QqI= Received: by 10.143.87.7 with SMTP id p7mr12824010wfl.146.1278003188477; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunrise (pool-98-117-108-60.sttlwa.fios.verizon.net [98.117.108.60]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f2sm7279124wfp.11.2010.07.01.09.53.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:53:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Scott Sanbeg" To: "'GNUbie'" , References: <4C280435.4060603@halplant.com><20100701160622.GA98823@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:52:53 -0700 Message-ID: <2E1EC727E18E4B4EB7EE084A9BC99A57@sunrise> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 thread-index: AcsZOLZyNPBcJGm4Sje+Lm0U5B3vnQABJzTQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18197 Cc: 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 17:23:41 -0000 I had the same thing happening while running in VirtualBox. Tested on a bare-metal machine afterward the results were the same - following the how-to's on running a ZFS root, or a ZFS swap device, or a gmirror root = that included swap (w/o ZFS at all) produced what your screenshot shows. My platform is amd64.=20 Scott -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of GNUbie Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 9:14 AM To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: maurovale@gmail.com; freebsd@jdc.parodius.com Subject: Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0-p3 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"