Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:19:17 -0500 From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: my slices are gone Message-ID: <C73D9585.14473%fsb@thefsb.org> In-Reply-To: <C73D8412.14466%fsb@thefsb.org>
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using sysinstall on the 8.0-RELEASE ISO Disk 1, i looked at the status of the disks and found some alarming things: the label editor shows no labels on either disk. that seems pretty bad. and the slice editor says: Disk slicing warning: chunk 'ad6p1' [40..409639] does not start on a track boundary chunk 'ad6p2' [409640..1464784583] does not start on a track boundary which seems pretty bad in two different ways. would anyone disagree that freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade has left this system unusable and the only next step is reformat at reinstall (that old windows routine)? tom > On 12/3/09 11:14 AM, "Tom Worster" <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote: > >> after running freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade my system won't boot. it >> gets stuck on mountroot and i can't find the magic word it wants. >> >> the system used to have two sata drives /dev/ad4 and ad6. they were >> partitioned and sliced using the deafaults that sysinstall suggested. >> >> at the boot prompt, lsdev says: >> >> disk devices >> disk0: BIOS drive C: >> disk0s1a: FFS >> disk0s1b: swap >> disk0s1d: FFS >> disk0s1e: FFS >> disk0s1f: FFS >> disk1: BIOS drive D: >> disk1s1a: FFS >> disk1s1b: swap >> disk1s1d: FFS >> disk1s1e: FFS >> disk1s1f: FFS >> >> which looks right, although i'm not familiar with the "disk" nomenclature. >> >> entering ? at mountroot mentions ad4 and ad6. >> >> geom_mirror was being used. >> >> i've tried saying "load geom_mirror" and/or "enable-module geom_mirror" at >> the >> boot prompt. neither made any difference. >> >> nothing i've said to mountroot works: >> >> ufs:/dev/ad4s1a >> ufs:/dev/ad6s1a >> ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a >> ufs:/dev/disk0s1a >> ufs:/dev/disk1s1a >> >> does anyone know the magic word? i'd be very grateful. > > and i'm not getting anywhere with fixit using livefs. it says: "ldconfig could > not create the ld.so hints file" and indeed programs like ls fail in a most > ugly manner. > > is there anything useful to be done with the holographic shell? the only mount > i can find is mount_nfs.
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