From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 30 11:04:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747E7106564A for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:04:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-qw0-f47.google.com (mail-qw0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 352928FC15 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qaea17 with SMTP id a17so3129608qae.13 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:04:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.224.27.77 with SMTP id h13mr756003qac.7.1322651060079; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:04:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ff9sm1716595qab.16.2011.11.30.03.04.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:04:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ED60DAF.6000106@my.gd> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:04:15 +0100 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20111114135054.1555270hw8a9d2xw@econet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <20111114135054.1555270hw8a9d2xw@econet.encontacto.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Stuck between current and 9 release. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:04:21 -0000 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