Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:14:45 -0500 From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade Message-ID: <C73D4E25.14441%fsb@thefsb.org>
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after running freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade my system won't boot. it
gets stuck on mountroot and i can't find the magic word it wants.
the system used to have two sata drives /dev/ad4 and ad6. they were
partitioned and sliced using the deafaults that sysinstall suggested.
at the boot prompt, lsdev says:
disk devices
disk0: BIOS drive C:
disk0s1a: FFS
disk0s1b: swap
disk0s1d: FFS
disk0s1e: FFS
disk0s1f: FFS
disk1: BIOS drive D:
disk1s1a: FFS
disk1s1b: swap
disk1s1d: FFS
disk1s1e: FFS
disk1s1f: FFS
which looks right, although i'm not familiar with the "disk" nomenclature.
entering ? at mountroot mentions ad4 and ad6.
geom_mirror was being used.
i've tried saying "load geom_mirror" and/or "enable-module geom_mirror" at
the boot prompt. neither made any difference.
nothing i've said to mountroot works:
ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
ufs:/dev/ad6s1a
ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a
ufs:/dev/disk0s1a
ufs:/dev/disk1s1a
does anyone know the magic word? i'd be very grateful.
tom
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