Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 11:08:41 -0400 From: Identry <identry@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot failure Message-ID: <4d4e09680908070808k38d2e4b0ke28c6c420deaa433@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <991123400908070746t7f9ed6ddy77450aec98885618@mail.gmail.com> References: <4d4e09680908061012q6ea8aeacm875c556eaea7a54f@mail.gmail.com> <4A7B1B41.7090507@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908061733v21602321x252a7111a7648ad6@mail.gmail.com> <4A7C074C.9060303@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908070731u546d6dfck6c9b9b1d66e1e6fa@mail.gmail.com> <991123400908070746t7f9ed6ddy77450aec98885618@mail.gmail.com>
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> If you did not touch the kernel, there is no need to boot GENERIC! Plus you > have said that this box is running PF, which is not in the GENERIC kernel! > Personally, I am interested in knowing why the system does not mount the > root partition on its own when you can do it by hand and it does not > complain. Me too. > Did you by any chance change anyting in /etc/fstab? No, this has never changed since original install. > What entries you do have in /etc/sysctl.conf? None. It is just the default file with some comments, but no uncommented lines. > Please try "fsck -y" option first although I am not quite optimistic about > it, given that mounting by hand works so far. Okay. > If I were to upgrade, I'd go to 6.4-STABLE first and wait there while > thinking about the next move. Right... I'm going to try getting this machine up first, before fussing with upgrades. > What does your /etc/rc.conf contain? $ cat rc.conf #$Id: rc.conf,v 1.4 2008/03/31 23:44:10 root Exp root $ # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sat Dec 1 16:23:45 2007 # Created: Sat Dec 1 16:23:45 2007 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. defaultrouter="66.111.0.193" hostname="on.identry.com" keyrate="fast" moused_enable="YES" monit_enable="YES" ntpd_enable="YES" ntpd_program="/usr/sbin/ntpd" ntpd_config="/etc/ntp.conf" ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" ntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid" saver="green" pf_enable="YES" pf_rules="/etc/pf.conf" pf_flags="" # additional flags for pfctl startup pflog_enable="YES" pflog_logfile="/var/log/pflog" pflog_flags="" # additional flags for pflogd startup sshd_enable="YES" #inetd_enable="YES" usbd_enable="YES" mysql_enable="YES" apache22_enable="YES" apache22_flags="-DSSL" apache22_http_accept_enable="YES" sendmail_enable="NONE" spamd_enable="YES" spamd_flags="-v -x -u vpopmail" courier_authdaemond_enable="YES" courier_imap_imapd_enable="YES" courier_imap_imapdssl_enable="YES" courier_imap_imapd_ssl_enable="YES" courier_imap_pop3d_enable="YES" courier_imap_pop3dssl_enable="YES" courier_imap_pop3d_ssl_enable="YES" clamav_clamd_enable="YES" clamav_freshclam_enable="YES" svscan_enable="YES" snmpd_enable="NO" pureftpd_enable="YES" autossh_enable="YES" mongrel_cluster_enable="YES" mongrel_cluster_config="/usr/local/etc/mongrel_cluster" # added by xorg-libraries port local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d"
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