From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Jun 27 18:52:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E7137B412 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:50:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k6.locore.ca (jake@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5S1rcDj080673; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:53:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5S1rcLq080672; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:53:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:53:37 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new snapshot available Message-ID: <20020627215337.D71376@locore.ca> References: <20020624043850.J19831@locore.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:46:52PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Apparently, On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:46:52PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn said words to the effect of; > At 4:38 AM -0400 6/24/02, Jake Burkholder wrote: > >I've uploaded a new snapshot. I encourage everyone to install > >this from scratch, and blow away your old system. The reason > >is that we want to get rid of all the old toolchain cruft that > >you may still have, from before the gcc3.1 import. > > Hmm, when I try to boot of this iso, the boot process seems to > be starting OK, but then after lists out the various devices > that it found (acd0 being the last one), it drops me into a > "mountroot" prompt, asking for the Manual root filesystem > specification. I try things like 'ufs:acd0a', or even 'ufs:ad0a' > (the root partition on the hard disk from the previous install) > but nothing seems to successfully get me past that point. > > I am trying this on an ultra-10, one which I had installed the > previous ISO on. I don't remember hitting this mountroot prompt > at that time. I don't see it in the installation notes for > sparc64. (have those installation notes been updated at all?) > > Is anyone else seeing this? Am I just doing something dumb here? Type boot -C at the loader prompt or cd9660:acd0a at the mountroot prompt. > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message