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Date:      Wed, 18 May 2005 15:36:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        David Kleiner <david.kleiner@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -current: unable to boot (bt_strategy X not multiple of block size)
Message-ID:  <20050518153537.M87264@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <f135cf2d05051713075b2e9cde@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <f135cf2d0505162351541011a4@mail.gmail.com>  <f135cf2d05051713075b2e9cde@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 17 May 2005, David Kleiner wrote:

>
> This is amd64 Asus A8N mobo, previous -current (May 1) worked fine, I
> cannot boot even into kernel.old any more, the only option is older
> i386 -current and maybe I can fix things from there.   The boot loader
> said i386/FreeBSD but I don't remember what it said before for amd64 -
> it was happening too fast.

Yes, its specific to amd64. There is a /boot/loader.old you can use just
in case, but you need to break into boot2 to get to it. At the first
spinny hit a key and it should drop you to a boot: prompt.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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