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.) -- WBR, bsam _______________________________________________ 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"