From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 27 14:19:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7BA106566C for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:19:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68798FC22 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:19:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwe6 with SMTP id 6so4487902wwe.31 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:19:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kJTcwRTvfaSqrRw+m1hUEYn7jiEEcjNK6A4RlENpVbM=; b=oOXEjLoJMkW7r/kyEzFSApuWyOrldTdG0FwPuT8OExnc1SxKSNWA26wwmXje6NA1KT TR5OCg5tr+hnWvQ7iH6V0SmuvHxUwBaYRMjkwhDAgxcPJYf75sEFGxgVzh/oFcfdiCYh /UuYMqaBpdAvFBFvQLmyvaXfhUznCPeVchcZU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OTJ+Frk4vYnDxmUBEm+qD7Sw70EHHGWtB0DU6/xgC7KGtYrSt8pNYBA8YvJ/F/L1bT r3YTyFzWRGTHsTEivCvPK8m+XxqUKKxCvs8/70/fim695sEDSpPXVtXeWiRMzV913B+6 SYMFjVKHG6OCaWirJBpQEluI1hkMPdys2j1HM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.217.7.3 with SMTP id z3mr5230706wes.68.1309184346313; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:19:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.46.7 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:19:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:19:06 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kurt Buff To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Fwd: 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 14:19:08 -0000 This should have gone to the list - sorry. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kurt Buff Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 07:17 Subject: Re: fubar'ed it good this time... To: Warren Block On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 06:40, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, 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. > > Scroll Lock and Page Up/Down should work there to scroll back to see the > disk device numbers. Scroll lok and page up work, and what I see is the following, copied by han= d: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 atapci0: port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x1c30-0x1c3f,0x1c20,0x1x2f at decive 31.2 on pci0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ata0: on atapci0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ata0: [ITHREAD] =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ata1: on atapci0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ata1: [ITHREAD] Then, at the end, I show: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ROOT MOUNT ERROR: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 If you have invalid mount options, reboot, and first thre the following from the loader prompt: etc. >> 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. > > Don't know what would cause that. =C2=A0Custom kernels could have the > ATA_STATIC_ID option removed, which might give the disk a different numbe= r, > ad2 or ad4 usually. > > The BIOS could have AHCI mode set, but that should not change with 8.2. T= hat > would make the disk ada0. > > I second the suggestion of mfsBSD. OK - when I get home from work, I'll download and see what that does for me= . Thanks, Kurt