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Date:      Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:04:15 +0100
From:      Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stuck between current and 9 release.
Message-ID:  <4ED60DAF.6000106@my.gd>
In-Reply-To: <20111114135054.1555270hw8a9d2xw@econet.encontacto.net>
References:  <20111114135054.1555270hw8a9d2xw@econet.encontacto.net>

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On 11/14/11 8:50 PM, eculp wrote:
> I was running current (before 10) last month, had a health emergency and
> when I could check the server current was 10.  I ereased all sources and
> switched all my csup files to release and begin building a new world
> daily with no problems to be sure all was well. ( probably a mistake ). 
> Port upgrades were building fine with portmaster so I just decided to
> reboot to see if all was well.( Dumb ) it wasn't,  (Murphy's Law), the
> machine won't boot.  Rather than a spinning slash (/) a single one and
> it hangs.
> 
> I have been looking for an amd 64 version of a release snapshot and
> haven't found anything close.  I have no idea why it doesn't even try to
> boot.  I have tried all the loader options and get nowhere.  I could use
> any suggestions especially since I don't even have a amd64 snapshot
> other than old ones to do a reinstall especially if there is a problem
> with the release.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ed
> 
> P.S. If this should be on another list please let me know.  If there is
> an AMD RELEASE 9 snap somewhere other than what is in the handbook.
>  Anything would be great.


9 hasn't been released yet, but you can grab 9.0-RC2 from FTPs, for example:
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/FreeBSD-9.0-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso




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