From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 11 22:38:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4D3106566C for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 22:38:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mail.gelita.se (212-162-182-244.skbbip.com [212.162.182.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9FA58FC0C for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 22:38:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gelita.se (localhost.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7144910E77C; Wed, 12 May 2010 00:41:36 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at troback.com Received: from mail.gelita.se ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (mail.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gH4UrybJ1DEg; Wed, 12 May 2010 00:41:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bljbsd01.no-ip.org (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id E87CB10E50A; Wed, 12 May 2010 00:41:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4BE9DC72.40205@eskk.nu> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 00:38:42 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100302 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Vande More References: <4BE9B41B.5020000@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk can't be found, boot stops at mountroot 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: Tue, 11 May 2010 22:38:50 -0000 On 2010-05-12 00:06, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Leslie Jensen > wrote: > > System 7.2-RELEASE > > I made the first reboot after > > freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE > > freebsd-update install > > and I'm now stuck at the mountroot> prompt that says trying to mount > from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > > ROOT MOUNT ERROR > > The command ? to list valid boot devices gives > List of GEOM managed disk devices: > cd0 ufsid/452b81499eec5ac8 ad0a acd0 ad0 fd0 > > I've tried > > ufs:/dev/da0s1a > > and > > ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > > With no luck > > Any suggestions on how to get booted? > > > If you boot off a 7.2 cd, can you see the proper partitions? What are > they? > > > > -- > Adam Vande More I used a 8.0 livefs CD and all I could find was ad0 and ad0a. Using sysinstall fdisk showed an empty disk! So I think I have some kind of hardware failure :-( /Leslie