On 6/27/11 8:17 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: > Sitrep: Lenovo T61, dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD (amd64 8.1-RELEASE) > on a 500gb drive. Just did a freebsd-update from 8.1 to 8.2, just > doing the second boot to do 'freebsd-update install' for the second > time, and got dumped into the mountroot prompt. > > AFAICT, I managed somehow to write something strange into /etc/fstab. > Can't tell what it is, because during boot it passes by too quickly > for me to read, and the boot process dumps me into the mountroot > prompt. > > WinXP still boots just fine, and the FreeBSD boot manager is in place, > and was working before the update. > > FreeBSD was booting just fine from /dev/ad0s2a, prior to running > freebsd-update. > > Now, however, when I select f1 to boot FreeBSD, I get the boot menu, > output from the boot process, and (as I've mentioned) then I get the > mountroot prompt. > > I've even downloaded and burned the 8.2 live boot iso, but it says it > can't find a hard drive from sysinstall - both the Fdisk and Label > options say > "No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller > is being properly probed at boot time. See the Hardware > guide on the Documentation menu for clues on > diagnosing this type of problem." > > I get no love from the Fixit shell, either, with /dev being void of > any reference to the hard drive - just acd0. > > I'm pretty sure that if I can mount the disk that I can just edit the > cruft out of /etc/fstab, and it will all be fine, but I can't get > there... > > Anyone have a thought on how to get this running? I've googled myself > silly on this, and am getting nowhere. > > 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"
You'll want to download a live CD with UFS support :) MFSBSD comes to mind: http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ _______________________________________________ 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"
