From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 9 19:38:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F1A1065672 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 19:38:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f178.google.com (mail-ey0-f178.google.com [209.85.215.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D859B8FC17 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 19:38:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyh5 with SMTP id 5so1776047eyh.37 for ; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:38:29 -0800 (PST) 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:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=4vHIFz/gi5JEr0n8QhAquSGNMu+S9RgIhDIAOaUTF+o=; b=o7nQ1iUd8d97Jdl+62coMW4DZpqlkS2xzn0Zz1wYkUKpamJLxzNi7ARQBj1L+fCKm3 y9eMTyC1hGJEkPZ3rHdQlBiNd0Tr4X66xOo6U8598OrPKOB+5pnIC5w4ZQTgTIXIMsTw w54ERkPNS0euHYP7kXGoy2rTuevCabN37dDmk= 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 :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HZbk4Gk0IBH3asuISoTM+HkGMZO4zZ5rJJorhwYs8/TlIUoeZwEJ88J/E+FTImcrWD sdcL6D5Sn9BraRznbGEsMUR6tzDIt6jtYEHUlLksAe38VF8FVHfX1/GxWFHNJdOthqr+ eMzXl1D7LvR10obY9+HIRMUxwo/F+XtoNfYnM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.185.208 with SMTP id u58mr2815982wem.87.1291923509707; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:38:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.164.21 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:38:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <84950898@bb.ipt.ru> References: <84950898@bb.ipt.ru> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:38:29 -0800 Message-ID: From: Kurt Buff To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: mountroot prompt in the middle of updating - can't get past it 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: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:38:31 -0000 On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 22:50, Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:49:41 -0800 Kurt Buff wrote: > >> All, > >> I have a Lenovo T61 with a 100g HD that I dual boot with FreeBSD >> 8.0-STABLE amd64 and Windows XP. > >> FBSD is on ad0s2a, with ad0s2b as swap, and XP on ad0s1a. > >> Yesterday I booted up FBSD, started xfce4, started a terminal session, >> su'ed to root and did the following - running a generic kernel: > >> # cd /usr/src >> # make buildworld >> # make buildkernel >> # make installkernel > >> Then I exited xfce4, did sudo shutdown -r now, and got a mountroot >> prompt that I now can't get past. > >> I can get to the loader prompt, and lsdev shows the following: > >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0cd devices: >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0disk devices: >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0disk0: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 BIOS drive C: >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 disk0s1: NTFS/HPFS >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 disk0s2a: =C2=A0= FFS >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 disk02sb: =C2=A0= swap > >> when I use '?' at the mountroot prompt I get: > >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0List of GEOM managed disk devices: >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 acd0 >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0Loader variables: >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0vfs.root.mountfrom=3Dufs:/dev/ad0s2a >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0vfs.root.mountfrom.options=3Drw > > >> I've tried entering the following at the mountroot prompt, with no succe= ss: >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0ufs:/dev/ad0s2a >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0ufs:/ad0s2a >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0ufs:ad0s2a >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0ffs:/dev/ad0s2a > >> and several other variations that I've found while googling, but no >> success anywhere. > >> Does anyone have thoughts on how to remedy this? > > Just for the last question: > Try to load an old kernel. (Type "boot /boot/kernel.old" at loader > prompt.) That worked... I think I'll try the update process again. Anything else you can recommend? Thanks, Kurt