On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 22:50, Boris Samorodov <b...@ipt.ru> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:49:41 -0800 Kurt Buff wrote: > >> All, > >> I have a Lenovo T61 with a 100g HD that I dual boot with FreeBSD >> 8.0-STABLE amd64 and Windows XP. > >> FBSD is on ad0s2a, with ad0s2b as swap, and XP on ad0s1a. > >> Yesterday I booted up FBSD, started xfce4, started a terminal session, >> su'ed to root and did the following - running a generic kernel: > >> # cd /usr/src >> # make buildworld >> # make buildkernel >> # make installkernel > >> Then I exited xfce4, did sudo shutdown -r now, and got a mountroot >> prompt that I now can't get past. > >> I can get to the loader prompt, and lsdev shows the following: > >> cd devices: >> disk devices: >> disk0: BIOS drive C: >> disk0s1: NTFS/HPFS >> disk0s2a: FFS >> disk02sb: swap > >> when I use '?' at the mountroot prompt I get: > >> List of GEOM managed disk devices: >> acd0 >> Loader variables: >> vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad0s2a >> vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw > > >> I've tried entering the following at the mountroot prompt, with no success: >> ufs:/dev/ad0s2a >> ufs:/ad0s2a >> ufs:ad0s2a >> ffs:/dev/ad0s2a > >> and several other variations that I've found while googling, but no >> success anywhere. > >> Does anyone have thoughts on how to remedy this? > > Just for the last question: > Try to load an old kernel. (Type "boot /boot/kernel.old" at loader > prompt.)
That worked... I think I'll try the update process again. Anything else you can recommend? Thanks, Kurt _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
