From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 11 22:40:33 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 5CFCE106566B for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 22:40:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f190.google.com (mail-qy0-f190.google.com [209.85.221.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1200B8FC15 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 22:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk28 with SMTP id 28so430762qyk.27 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 15:40:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=A0aX3CpBNfv5KZydbbgsHtjF0zwe6AdHKRWN8A+xq/M=; b=VgBL+RirF3pcjzoOXfbA53zHwg158jhgvd2TiCOPybhRsbkxV1sEcgTZwEVa+c6wXS ttb5BaC67PqukPujkuJQXCzuMAToBeP2Jv5bfekSuf3hfZ2hzsEfvU4tfZN+L52Uvwq3 t1F2VH8tcCj5mffTv6/NnlFMcsXLCBDSQta9M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Wj4oM63U4N9OIVKhXZehJwmYAEBemZ8HnSRF01jIW2KZc32mpSl6+pQM60eXGLJFYY 6ebguKknLjrhP1PH72Eh+g3FtuYROr1MwIjEMastBsR1vjOpZ3hyg4DjYVjCRqARdSTu M4gut7eExASHOqc7C9M+EiTIxhBk1CtzqEXLE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.35.99 with SMTP id o35mr830734qad.394.1273617632422; Tue, 11 May 2010 15:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.99.67 with HTTP; Tue, 11 May 2010 15:40:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BE9DC72.40205@eskk.nu> References: <4BE9B41B.5020000@eskk.nu> <4BE9DC72.40205@eskk.nu> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:40:32 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Leslie Jensen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 22:40:33 -0000 On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > 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! > **If you boot off a 7.2 cd** > > So I think I have some kind of hardware failure :-( > > /Leslie > > -- Adam Vande More