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Date:      Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:57:02 -0400
From:      Mark Johnston <markjdb@gmail.com>
To:        George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: After a source upgrade from 8.3-RELEASE to r249432 (HEAD)
Message-ID:  <20130416005702.GA5006@gloom.uwaterloo.ca>
In-Reply-To: <516C5BE2.50005@m5p.com>
References:  <516C5BE2.50005@m5p.com>

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On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 03:58:26PM -0400, George Mitchell wrote:
> 
> It was pretty successful.  All my 8.3 packages are still running very
> happily, though at some point I imagine I will have to update and
> recompile them.
> 
> But ...
> 
> When I press ENTER in the boot0 screen, I get the hyphen that will start
> spinning after a timeout and begin loading boot1 (which, as far as I
> know, I have not updated).  boot1 (I think) presents me with a prompt
> that does not respond to key presses on the keyboard.  It times out and
> continues loading anyway.  At this stage, I am always presented with a
> manual mountroot: prompt, and I have to type "ufs:/dev/ada0s1a" to get
> any further.

I ran into this too. It was caused by a problem in r249408 and is fixed
as of r249436. Updating your kernel to something beyond r249435 should
make this go away.

-Mark



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