"Kent Hauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently rebuild a 7-STABLE which refused to boot & then ran into some > problems trying to recover. > > 1) After escaping to the loader prompt, I could only enter a couple of > characters (eg 2) before the machine hung. Not enough for the "unload / > load" dance. > > 2) After booting from the downloaded 7-RELEASE install ISO (AMD64), I find > the emergency shell doesn't have mount_ufs, just mount_nfs. Also, no /rescue > directory. I don't know if this is by design, but how does one mount root or > any other local disk partition?
mount(8) > 3) After downloading & burning the 7-RELEASE LiveFS ISO (AMD64), I find > fixit told me ld.so-hints could not be created & dynamicly linked programs > wouldn't run -- and they didn't. I'm not sure, but shouldn't that get built every boot time? > 4) So I reinstalled, only newfs'ing /root & pulled the appropriate files > from a backup. > > What am I missing? Other than the fact that there isn't any mount_ufs, you seem to be okay. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"