Hi all,
I just updated my server from 6.3-RELEASE to 6.4-RELEASE and I now
can't boot my machine - a rather crappy HP desktop.
The boot seems to go along nicely without any errors that I can see
but when it comes to mounting the root filesystem it bails out:
Trying to mount root from
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:27:20 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
Anybody got any idea on what's going on how to fix it?
The messages you presented seem to indicate that ad0 is not found.
It's not listed in the available devices, and boot fails.
Could you check its presence using a
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:54:55 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
I tried booting a FreeBSD CD going into sysinstall then fdisk but
it said it couldn't find any disks.
Ah! This means something like the disk *really* can't be accessed.
You can easily conclude from
% dmesg |
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:42PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:27:20 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
Anybody got any idea on what's going on how to fix it?
The messages you presented seem to indicate that ad0 is not found.
It's not listed in the available
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:05:57PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:54:55 +, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
I tried booting a FreeBSD CD going into sysinstall then fdisk but
it said it couldn't find any disks.
Ah! This means something like the disk *really*
