Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:08:44 -0400 From: Identry <jalmberg@identry.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Boot failure Message-ID: <4d4e09680908070708i286b98a7j6f03725a848ae83c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4d4e09680908070708x635dcd80ha96a61e9c71b0b6b@mail.gmail.com> References: <4d4e09680908061012q6ea8aeacm875c556eaea7a54f@mail.gmail.com> <4A7B1B41.7090507@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908061733v21602321x252a7111a7648ad6@mail.gmail.com> <4A7C074C.9060303@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908070708x635dcd80ha96a61e9c71b0b6b@mail.gmail.com>
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> I'd give it an fsck or two (more than one has been needed once or
> twice),
I was afraid to run fsck before backing up everything I might possibly
need, so I spent most of last night mounting all the partitions and
backing up things.
I was able to manually mount all the partitions and all the data seemed fin=
e.
At this point, I'm ready to risk an fsck or pretty much anything.
> also has anything changed with the server (updates etc etc) for
> example why was it rebooted?
Because of a stupid mistake on my part. I was trying to add an address
to the NIC card, and rather than *add* the address to a long list of
addresses (used for https websites), I made that the only address. I
was only experimenting, so the file in /etc that I use to set up the
addresses (using ifconfig) was unchanged. I figured a quick reboot
would solve the problem, so I logged in via the console and did a
clean shutdown. When I turned the machine back on, it would not boot.
=A0I seem to recall a verbose boot mode in the
> boot menu. does that give any hints beyond the freeze you see when you
> try and boot?
It prints one line, which I cannot recall, unfortunately.
> Are you using the GENERIC kernel
I don't know. This is the oldest freebsd machine that I run. I didn't
install the OS, myself. It's a 6.2 machine that had been running in
production mode without any updates for over a year when I took it
over. I am embarrassed to say I never had the nerve to do any updates
on it, either, because when I started on it, I didn't know enough
about FreeBSD to risk the 40 websites that were running on it.
I've been meaning to update it for awhile, but it is locked down tight
with PF and has had zero problems up until now. Famous last words...
> if not have you tried it?
No. I need to figure out how to do that, and I didn't have enough
brain power last night after doing all those backups.
After sleeping on it, I am wondering if I can kill two birds with one
stone... by using 7.2 install CDs to upgrade the machine? I believe
there is an 'upgrade' option on the install menu (I'm burning some 7.2
CDs right now to double check.)
Or would it be safer to try to bring up the machine on it's own with a
6.2 generic kernel, first?
-- John
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