From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 07:08:09 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BCCD728D for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:08:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5646A2053 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.erewhon.home (slackbox.xs4all.nl [83.162.243.5]) by smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s6T785Jb029748; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:08:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.erewhon.home (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AFBCD12359; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:08:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:08:05 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Brian Wood Subject: Re: Problem booting Message-ID: <20140729070805.GA2594@slackbox.erewhon.home> Mail-Followup-To: Brian Wood , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20140728201316.GA75558@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140728232101.GA1425@slackbox.erewhon.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:08:09 -0000 --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 08:51:17PM -0500, Brian Wood wrote: > Just to be clear I'm using PCBSD 10 "Joule". I put the dvd in and got to > an emergency shell. There I could edit /boot/device.hints but not save it > because it was on a read-only file system. (Maybe that was on the dvd.) Probably. > I tried mounting some things listed under /dev but that didn't work. > I'm not sure what partition /boot is on. Generally, /boot is on the root partition. It depends on what partitioning scheme PCBSD used. It is probably either /dev/ada0p2 (using GPT partitioning) or /dev/ada0s1a (MBR partitions). Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 5753 3324 1661 B0FE 8D93 FCED 40F6 D5DC A38A 33E0 (keyID: A38A33E0) --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJT10hVAAoJEED21dyjijPgUrYP/iJMrln3ArrQjn+/+Z8HvwJN 2ETa6I39qMnwVsroFdKeq1UjkZ2JQrfVANMJFSe8lZeiw+w9fgLfrjyX88oP8ZZm zi3JTHink7Qn4EPdnCVDxR5eRnp5KzmdMcmJInSk/Wc0zSizGu5pIUTwST4r5JUD 4nr461BEcKPI5v7U7cuTY5Abbo0IpG5aaEhTS8rEJYdOUdi+mcy//EKkHKsCxTiX Dbo2zMwsv7Xxc86x6nabAEbcGSNY1gIlU2LhOcVAZQ2G+6SvGTQMRLaoreTAAts5 tZ2lgt1BHsNoTZDiFPkbMb47Z+vOMom9RZiWTeZd7MVVqMCrYr1gWOOE2rXPEY/X IQfXPHGeDCfFsZv0tMWfr2xFCWKddRt80DS4vd73NzZY6sw1BAhBjqJGwaiJqPrA T1eo8yJ+uaFEPP+I44fesmQcg39G2Tt6JIbnjrBVOwOlQDwLs/rqeVbk0rs9ftL4 TfuhhPnck5nQ//zGb6O4AkDhRXaFJN26I4RnR++BbJTO/7slfmO147JHo7KvLhco lpB83xn9kHoCsMyZEn9dxURJaZPR2KrDb1ayTAY/Tw0LP5mp2bc1CcjCoUbhBF2r b17bv5bLFMpTesEnN/+mvkRIK2N2szJ4Ie1kztdrwThJdRmdGokq7UBgIMqkCTWH kaBGINOx9Zw17JAIjvxw =9qxM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ--