Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:24:18 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT Message-ID: <20121231002418.726f7ca2.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <50E0BFA0.6070702@rcn.com> References: <50E0BFA0.6070702@rcn.com>
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:26:40 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > Used csup (tag=.) to update the source tree as of midnight last night. This seems to be discouraged today. Instead svn should be used. > 5) On rebooting, the loader(??) claims to not be able to find a > bootable partition - i.e. I get a screen that ends in "mountpoint > ". Are you sure this isn't the "mountroot>" prompt? It indicates that the / partition cannot be mounted to continue booting. Maybe you can interrupt at the boot loader and examine the mount source for /, or manually set it to be ada0p1? > Providing the presumptive value by hand returns "error 19". No root partition, probably. :-) > This is my first time installing to a GPT partitioned system, and I > have (obviously) failed to grok something. I checked src/UPDATING and > found nothing which covered this. That's why _I_ prefer old-fashioned MBR partitioning with sysinstall which has never failed me. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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