From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 06:29:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 762C1106566B for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:29:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.barnardq@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471298FC17 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:29:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.barnardq@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so309204rvf.43 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:29:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Gp8n0Tsu9Darrn+ihOAAPZZ6OGsdkgzX8o3RFQxmoho=; b=rQTa6Uuei/ncjMfZpnene2wdVo1lbRuAgG2Y8fSW+jjk7iws39An6owES4IUv9iIuz ryz+W9Jv8CgLts8ErvqcLtTCjhB9hKg9iFLxW67hDisvifU/9qQ+HWGqAMhROwhhpWf4 4ZFwECXG9YLspdaKby6CnMXymRdO7Xy5QsLG4= 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 :cc:content-type; b=CDnAW/JJLD0qdssIsz1UU9VDzTnH6g7QMmXXCknzgFdwECPDr+5opLs5+bNCUajxSy CizOu9c4NsozxGg0MEaAr9zRM0A44p0r3sosn4ogq371AD2X1pW2GhLiHtAxTrChlyP+ P7e/yMTlXu67KDjbte6LrDCzkVVl11Z2qbPv0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.141.107.13 with SMTP id j13mr456862rvm.65.1233296982353; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:29:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <877i4du0hd.fsf@placid.homeunix.net> References: <7dc029620901290634q7ca5361ct496fc2c4a6bfe53f@mail.gmail.com> <7dc029620901290904m241a101ya5c4e044eac7000b@mail.gmail.com> <877i4du0hd.fsf@placid.homeunix.net> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:29:42 +0300 Message-ID: <7dc029620901292229p7e517c50q1ab4897fc7a80e31@mail.gmail.com> From: Mike Barnard To: Phillip Musumeci Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:29:43 -0000 Thanks Phillip, > 1) you can have a boot hint in file /boot/loader.conf to say where the > system should take the root file system (and therefore /etc/fstab) from. This would work if the OS was able to detect the disk. In this case, after I boot the STABLE installation, i do not see any hard drive detected. With this entry, I dont think it would boot since FreeBSD cannot see the disk. I will give it a try and get back to you. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ------------------------------------------------------------