On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:47:58AM -0400, Identry wrote: > > Realize that if you upgrade to 7.x, you'll have to remove and reinstall > > all ports because the version number of shared system libraries will > > have changed. > > Yes, I've decided this is way too complicated. > > >> Or would it be safer to try to bring up the machine on it's own with a > >> 6.2 generic kernel, first? > > > > Seeing as how you can mount the partitions on the drive perfectly by > > hand, maybe it was just a glitch. Have you tried rebooting again? > > Yes. It won't even boot into single user or safe mode. It hangs when > it tries to mount the root partition. > > > If it still doesn't work, try getting into the boot menu and see if the > > drive looks OK from there. > > Not exactly sure what you mean... How can I see what the drive looks > like from the boot menu? Sorry if this is a total newbie question...
Well, if you enter the FreeBSD boot code, you get a menu. One of the choices is "escape to loader prompt" IIRC. But from your other emails I can see that you're not even getting into the boot loader... Looks like your hardware is dying/dead. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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