Re: 7.2 system stuck trying at boot, trying to mount root device

2009-06-25 Thread usleepless
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:13:41 -0400, Forrest Aldrich > wrote: > > I also did a proper mount, fsck, and umount under the LiveFS shell, > > which made no difference. > > I hope I'm just reading it in the wrong order. The correct > order is to 1st

Re: 7.2 system stuck trying at boot, trying to mount root device

2009-06-24 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:13:41 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I also did a proper mount, fsck, and umount under the LiveFS shell, > which made no difference. I hope I'm just reading it in the wrong order. The correct order is to 1st fsck, then mount, not vice versa. Never fsck a mounted file syst

7.2 system stuck trying at boot, trying to mount root device

2009-06-24 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I'm running a modest PC that has FreeBSD-7.2 installed (fairly current build from CVS). Today, I did a "shutdown -r" to reboot the system. When it returned, the console is reporting: "Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a" I've gone through and restored the boot loader, this works fine