From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 13 02:37:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 5A76216A577 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:37:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark_stout04@yahoo.com) Received: from web53701.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web53701.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.37.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 223BB13C465 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:37:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark_stout04@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 64279 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Jun 2007 02:37:04 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=PfptdxTU8rs9Ymn3KLN1JcCa8kOfRznFc7w+TToxwjU1qsrYui6l5F9kJaUd46pvjnRuaVs9kqMA+9R1PM1JgDPulv6CAcVjpPsZnX5ihp+IvOXzZ4kUAuhzeRPu2cJzR+inadspOjxvCxlop0B3JeN8HYMKtjrVadirgsimHaM= ; Message-ID: <20070613023704.64277.qmail@web53701.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.218.94.138] by web53701.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:37:04 PDT Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:37:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Stout To: jackbarnett@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: illoai@gmail.com, mcs@vpm.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE from 6.2-STABLE 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: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:37:05 -0000 I couldn't load da0s1a even though /dev/da0s1a is my root drive. Manually load my old kernel from the prompt worked. I believe the mountroot is during the boot load. I'm not anywhere near being able to do anything. I have no idea what the problem is. [jackbarnett@gmail.com] wrote: no idea, but maybe: boot /boot/kernel/kernel or boot /boot/kernel.old/kernel What is 'mountroot' - is that the boot loader or the kernel/system giving you that? try mounting your root drive! do a `df -k`, anything already mounted? oh! or try: fsck did it ask you to login? Mark Stout wrote: > I followed all the steps in the handbook as well as UPDATED and after a installworld and mergemaster its booting into 'mountroot>' and nothing I type mounts. This is a production machine so I'm in dire need of assistence. > > [illoai@gmail.com] wrote: > On 11/06/07, Mark Stout wrote: > > >>> Following the tasks in Rebuilding "world" in the handbook >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html I removed the >>> /usr/obj directory and did a buildworld. When tryinmg to compile the kernel its failing on >>> unknown option "MD5". Commenting that out it fails on the line above MD5, options LKM. >>> What's happening here? These two options papear in the LINT file. I can't find anything >>> that explains why this would happen. >>> >> A follow-up to my last email. I copied GENERIC to RADIUS2 and >> symlinked to /root/kernel. Then added the various LINT options. >> >> I started commenting out what is failing when I try to compile a new >> kernel. All are from the LINT file. Is MD5 a default that does not >> need to be specifically added? What about ICMP_BANDLIM? And >> support for IDE drives. Are these already handed elsewhere in GENERIC? >> >> # These all failed as unknown options: >> unknown option "MD5" >> unknown option "LKM" >> unknown option "CD9660_ROOTDELAY" >> unknown option "NSWAPDEV" >> unknown option "TCP_COMPAT_42" >> unknown option "ICMP_BANDLIM" (found in Handbook in Chapter 14 Securing FreeBSD) >> >> >> # Do not understand why these are fialing >> config: Error: device "acd0" is unknown >> config: Error: device "wfd0" is unknown >> config: Error: device "wst0" is unknown >> >> # This failed as a syntax error >> controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 >> >> > > Most of the above looks like old, deprecated > stuff from 5.x and earlier (the "controller wdc0" > line reminds me of 3.x or maybe NetBSD). > > IDE drive support is all handled by ata(4), all > you should need for those in your kernel config > is: > device ata > device atadisk > device atapicd > (and obviously:) > device eisa > device pci > Which are already part of GENERIC. > > /usr/src/sys//conf/LINT doesn't exist in 6.x. > Try looking at /usr/src/sys//conf/NOTES > and /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES for knobs to twist > and buttons to push. > >