From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 04:55:02 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 88DD6C15 for ; Mon, 26 May 2014 04:55:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.cyberleo.net (mtumishi.cyberleo.net [216.226.128.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 666502591 for ; Mon, 26 May 2014 04:55:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.44.4] (vitani.den.cyberleo.net [216.80.73.130]) by mail.cyberleo.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0BEF1C76; Mon, 26 May 2014 00:54:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <5382C91C.1070706@cyberleo.net> Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 23:54:52 -0500 From: CyberLeo Kitsana User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Altman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Post 'svn up .' to Revision: 266585 for 9.2; failure to mount root References: <20140523144021.GA6839@whisperer.chthonixia.net> <53802BA9.4050608@cyberleo.net> <20140525234924.GA33129@whisperer.chthonixia.net> In-Reply-To: <20140525234924.GA33129@whisperer.chthonixia.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Mon, 26 May 2014 04:55:02 -0000 On 05/25/2014 06:49 PM, Joe Altman wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:18:33AM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: >> Were your 'ad' aliases disabled in this new build? I just checked, and >> my 9.2 and 10.0 boxen have them by default; but they can be turned off. > > If they were disabled, I did not do so. Additionally, I don't have a > clear idea what disabling means. So a question: is this something that > is done for some reason? They were put in place to ease the transition away from the old ATA drivers between 8 and 9. They were always intended to be temporary, and were thus able to be switched off by people who knew they didn't need them; it doesn't look like they have been switched off officially as yet. >> I would say to type ? at the mountroot prompt, but... >> >>> Then my keyboard fails, so I need to warm reset the machine. >> >> ...which means you can't really see what devices are available. > > I have tried to look at the issue, and find in dmesg for GENERIC: > > ada0: Previously was known as ad4 > ada1: Previously was known as ad8 > > When I look at messages, this first occurs after the upgrade in the > subject line. > > glabel list shows this: > > joe on whisperer /var/log $: glabel list -a > Geom name: ada1s1 > Providers: > 1. Name: ufsid/4ded07edcfa105b8 > Mediasize: 640134996480 (596G) > Sectorsize: 512 > Stripesize: 0 > Stripeoffset: 32256 > Mode: r0w0e0 > secoffset: 0 > offset: 0 > seclength: 1250263665 > length: 640134996480 > index: 0 > Consumers: > 1. Name: ada1s1 > Mediasize: 640134996480 (596G) > Sectorsize: 512 > Stripesize: 0 > Stripeoffset: 32256 > Mode: r0w0e0 > > Which shows the absence of ada0... Under which kernel? >> Since you're using GENERIC, can you extract a fresh kernel from the >> distribution and see if that exhibits similar behaviour, just to narrow >> down a possible intermittent hardware issue? > > Not sure what this means. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/9.2-RELEASE/kernel.txz >> Another thing you might try is to switch the root mount in fstab or >> loader.conf to using a glabel device, like /dev/ufs/