From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 10:30:38 2002 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 5DE7137B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:30:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web14008.mail.yahoo.com (web14008.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 178E043ECD for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:30:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kip_macy@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020729173035.96991.qmail@web14008.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.235.125.149] by web14008.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:30:35 PDT Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:30:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Kip Macy Reply-To: kip@eventdriven.org Subject: unable to boot after upgrade from 4.5-RELEASE to 4.6-STABLE To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been running 4.5-RELEASE without any problems under VMWare for months. I just upgraded to 4.6-STABLE. I may not have installed the new kernel before rebooting, I can't even get to the boot prompt as a result. Is there anything I can do? The screen shows the following when it panics: BIOS 638kB/261130kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (kmacy@kipster.fsmware.com, Sat Jul 27 14:37:34 PDT 2002) Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk 2 BIOS drive C: is disk 3 BIOS 638kB/261130kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (kmacy@kipster.fsmware.com, Sat Jul 27 14:37:34 PDT 2002) Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes. defaulting to disk0: Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk 4 BIOS drive C: is disk 5 BIOS 638kB/261130kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (kmacy@kipster.fsmware.com, Sat Jul 27 14:37:34 PDT 2002) Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x3755c __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message