Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:40:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fubar'ed it good this time... Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106270729580.95578@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimc%2B-Dvjpp9h0DYg8ofFt-Yr8DrMg@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTimc%2B-Dvjpp9h0DYg8ofFt-Yr8DrMg@mail.gmail.com>
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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. > 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. Custom kernels could have the ATA_STATIC_ID option removed, which might give the disk a different number, ad2 or ad4 usually. The BIOS could have AHCI mode set, but that should not change with 8.2. That would make the disk ada0. I second the suggestion of mfsBSD.
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