From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 27 10:04:00 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 9F8E1106566C for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:04:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D608FC15 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg24 with SMTP id 24so1745765wyg.13 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:03:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.24.135 with SMTP id v7mr1982190wbb.11.1309169036828; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c17sm3961007wbh.46.2011.06.27.03.03.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E08558A.7000101@my.gd> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:03:54 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: fubar'ed it good this time... 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: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:04:00 -0000 On 6/27/11 8:17 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: > Sitrep: Lenovo T61, dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD (amd64 8.1-RELEASE) > on a 500gb drive. Just did a freebsd-update from 8.1 to 8.2, just > doing the second boot to do 'freebsd-update install' for the second > time, and got dumped into the mountroot prompt. > > AFAICT, I managed somehow to write something strange into /etc/fstab. > Can't tell what it is, because during boot it passes by too quickly > for me to read, and the boot process dumps me into the mountroot > prompt. > > WinXP still boots just fine, and the FreeBSD boot manager is in place, > and was working before the update. > > FreeBSD was booting just fine from /dev/ad0s2a, prior to running freebsd-update. > > Now, however, when I select f1 to boot FreeBSD, I get the boot menu, > output from the boot process, and (as I've mentioned) then I get the > mountroot prompt. > > I've even downloaded and burned the 8.2 live boot iso, but it says it > can't find a hard drive from sysinstall - both the Fdisk and Label > options say > "No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller > is being properly probed at boot time. See the Hardware > guide on the Documentation menu for clues on > diagnosing this type of problem." > > I get no love from the Fixit shell, either, with /dev being void of > any reference to the hard drive - just acd0. > > I'm pretty sure that if I can mount the disk that I can just edit the > cruft out of /etc/fstab, and it will all be fine, but I can't get > there... > > Anyone have a thought on how to get this running? I've googled myself > silly on this, and am getting nowhere. > > Kurt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" You'll want to download a live CD with UFS support :) MFSBSD comes to mind: http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/