After an update stable doesn't boot

2008-10-23 Thread Reinhold
Hi I just did a system update and after I've rebooted it doesn't boot up any more. All I'm getting is a blank screen with a curser blinking at the top left corner of the screen. This system was running 7.0-STABLE Any ideas as to how I can get it back up? Regards Reinhold _

After an update stable doesn't boot

2008-10-23 Thread Reinhold
Hi I just did a system update and after I've rebooted it doesn't boot up any more. All I'm getting is a blank screen with a curser blinking at the top left corner of the screen. This system was running 7.0-STABLE Any ideas as to how I can get it back up? Regards Reinhold __

Re: After an update stable doesn't boot

2008-10-23 Thread Reinhold
A little update. I can boot into freebsd using the life cd and can mount the disk when I'm in fixit. But from there on I have no idea what to do to fix this problem. Can any one please help Thanks On Thu, October 23, 2008 19:51, Reinhold wrote: > Hi > > > I just did a system update and after I

Re: After an update stable doesn't boot

2008-10-23 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:40:23 +0100 (BST) Reinhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A little update. > > I can boot into freebsd using the life cd and can mount the disk when > I'm in fixit. > > But from there on I have no idea what to do to fix this problem. Some quick checks: - use fdisk (for exam

Re: After an update stable doesn't boot

2008-10-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Reinhold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A little update. > > I can boot into freebsd using the life cd and can mount the disk when I'm > in fixit. > > But from there on I have no idea what to do to fix this problem. Try reinstalling the bootloader. You can do that by going into the sysinstall d

Re: After an update stable doesn't boot

2008-10-23 Thread Reinhold
On Thu, October 23, 2008 21:57, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > Some quick checks: > - use fdisk (for example: fdisk ad0) to check if the correct slice is > active - use boot0cfg -v to check the bootcode of the disk you are booting > from > Hi Thanks for getting back to me. Here is the info I have f

Re: After an update stable doesn't boot

2008-10-23 Thread Reinhold
On Thu, October 23, 2008 22:02, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Try reinstalling the bootloader. You can do that by going into the > sysinstall disk partitioning screens, but not changing any slice or > partitioning settings. > Hi I tried to do this as well with no success, What I did notice was that i

Re: After an update stable doesn't boot

2008-10-23 Thread Reinhold
Found the problem Its not Freebsd, its the pci raid controller. It was suggested to me on daemonforums.org to unplug all the drives and then plug them in one by one until it happened again, and it did, it happened when I plugged the first drive into the controller. Any ways, now I have to figure