I recently rebuild a 7-STABLE which refused to boot & then ran into some problems trying to recover.
1) After escaping to the loader prompt, I could only enter a couple of characters (eg 2) before the machine hung. Not enough for the "unload / load" dance. 2) After booting from the downloaded 7-RELEASE install ISO (AMD64), I find the emergency shell doesn't have mount_ufs, just mount_nfs. Also, no /rescue directory. I don't know if this is by design, but how does one mount root or any other local disk partition? 3) After downloading & burning the 7-RELEASE LiveFS ISO (AMD64), I find fixit told me ld.so-hints could not be created & dynamicly linked programs wouldn't run -- and they didn't. 4) So I reinstalled, only newfs'ing /root & pulled the appropriate files from a backup. What am I missing? This is a dual-boot VISTA machine with easybcd boot sector. I don't know what to make of problem 1), but the others seem release-engineering related. Thanks. Kent _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
