From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 08:48:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A1F1065679 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:48:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brucec@muon.cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6E48FC17 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A792EE720A; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:48:16 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:48:16 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101030084816.GA13251@muon.cran.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: panic after entering blank line at mountroot prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:48:17 -0000 I recently ran my FreeBSD installation in a virtual machine, and when I booted on real hardware I'd forgotten to update /etc/fstab. I saw the rootmount prompt and tried to clear away the USB probe messages by pressing enter. It appears there's a problem with the mountroot code though because instead of another line, I got a panic: "failed to (re-)mount root". Should the mountroot parser be failing if it doesn't find a valid root to mount on the first line? -- Bruce Cran