Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:41:18 -0700 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fubar'ed it good this time... Message-ID: <BANLkTi=SWqj9y7MJH5y0q22fopZkXKUTZw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110628052446.89911e0a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <BANLkTimc%2B-Dvjpp9h0DYg8ofFt-Yr8DrMg@mail.gmail.com> <4E08558A.7000101@my.gd> <BANLkTimbCcsdGnNLWcYvEjQUy5EHWDbVjQ@mail.gmail.com> <20110628052446.89911e0a.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 20:24, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables. >> >> I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... > > Check if you can download FreeSBIE somewhere. It's a live system > using the 5.x and 6.x kernel which should be fine. Next to two > GUI modes (light, heavy) it also has a versatile "maintenance mode" > for such operations. I have already successfully used this system > for solving similar situations, for diagnostics, and for data > recovery preparation. The 7.4 livefs CD finds the hardware, and there was much rejoicing! I mounted the hard drive under /mnt, and I looked at /mnt/etc/fstab, and it's clean, and I also looked at /mnt/boot/loader.conf, and it's clean as well. So is /mnt/boot/loader.rc. However, during the boot process from the hard drive, I still saw scrolling by a reference to a syntax error, but it went too fast and I can't see what file was referenced. So, I started looking at the handbook to see if I could figure out which file might have been updated incorrectly. One was boot/device.hints - there was a string of equal signs as the first line of that file. How they got there I don't know, but I deleted that line, and that seems to have helped, because now I don't see the syntax error - but I'm still getting the mountroot prompt, and it's very possible that some other error is occuring in the quick boot process before the user-selectable menu is displayed. It's late, so I'm going to bed now, but I'll keep working it tomorrow. Kurt
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