Date: 21 May 2005 10:55:18 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: root filesystem occationally not found Message-ID: <44sm0goch5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <000501c55d9a$9dd92e50$0200a8c0@satellite> References: <000501c55d9a$9dd92e50$0200a8c0@satellite>
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"dave" <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> writes: > I've got a 5.2 box that on the very rare times i have to reboot it > occationally, not always but enough to be a concern, it can not find it's > root filesystem, and i'm dropped at a loader prompt. At the loader prompt i > issue "reboot" the box does so again and this time it boots completely. I am > at a loss to explain this and wonder if anyone has seen anything similar? That exact set of symptoms doesn't sound familiar, but I would suspect that there might be other messages about the disk just before that. If this is an ATA disk, I would suggest updating the system, as improvements in the ATA code might solve the problem and will certainly make diagnosing it simpler.
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