From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 27 06:17:48 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 BA84C1065672 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:17:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5356A8FC14 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:17:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg24 with SMTP id 24so1607473wyg.13 for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:17:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=rjthehQ2xNa1mVIPT8idz+lzTxx97NayRXf+VEmg7NU=; b=iFMhC139vI2HFAeR07jZXtW0aKBmVpoj059pGFaHGvff0ZGxMt8k3ANw9GaksGBE1B lB8Xcs+i2Fw9DujAexrmA1BCrpb6k9aw/nVlllGp4b4Tk6LxrC6+tH/icqkH1I0oTN/v KHumCAQ+M4ql0tMhGTgNKozynQ1nvBfv4oyHU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=w8jWdiKCxNgk680tXBnpIlOwukI2go744RmFR2AZQKcmowtNPbY/pPhEydcTezZujV gdd+rVVpK1YeZDPcxNGkydy4iJDAUKgsz/9W4nAsDHimGipPk9ZNmv76WakNCx2I62Qm KjowaGjyPd2YgxU0LvUH3E7ySUEsEd+Tz2Nlg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.46.21 with SMTP id q21mr1933889web.113.1309155466894; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:17:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.46.7 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:17:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:17:46 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kurt Buff To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Subject: 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 06:17:48 -0000 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