From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 7 20:41:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CAD10656B6 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:41:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from identry@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f224.google.com (mail-fx0-f224.google.com [209.85.220.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 319D28FC22 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm24 with SMTP id 24so1880039fxm.36 for ; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:41:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=hJjsH7fzw328ZY1+itJOdc424/xM542zOXecD2CXA98=; b=Jqad6vEX8vqYRD4mGWylBJn6YLimU2jPfLKo2KgMIJMviEqnLpKGbDGekIl7Clr3mT 2j1uwYFjkixfnHZTcdnYso/FlV0dAXQ8xTWO4vGoMY02IIka1dl/CgeZlYMx1EV1njoS u0daO4klNq26qYyLLiTqVM7xlfawuyZYASqnQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=oDE+ifY+QVu0v1ER5vuBEQA+1YL7miyErv4/Y+6y2WSdZ1lIZvNW/5ZL49KCsQaLDa NvQnuRqwcrlKHaE4KFjjIbufNTmOeUzPjjAe3yNIMUQLmahRTUAhSlDadUkkpTB8e4m7 oxP1WCk9malaRyO7MGfG07hERgqbUqUWeQ9zA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.64.148 with SMTP id e20mr859138bki.147.1249677717160; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:41:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4d4e09680908071318p66a6e76bwedda5f88623e019d@mail.gmail.com> References: <4d4e09680908061012q6ea8aeacm875c556eaea7a54f@mail.gmail.com> <4A7B1B41.7090507@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908061733v21602321x252a7111a7648ad6@mail.gmail.com> <4A7C074C.9060303@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908070825h6f42e692t8cf0baa4f10f9cc@mail.gmail.com> <20090807154009.GB39621@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4d4e09680908070926y40c6463au2666fd0b085ab3af@mail.gmail.com> <20090807165707.GA51779@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <4d4e09680908071318p66a6e76bwedda5f88623e019d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:41:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4d4e09680908071341i2d503819h2d6a55b885db5b56@mail.gmail.com> From: Identry To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Boot failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jalmberg@identry.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:42:00 -0000 > Okay, back in the data center. I ran fsck_ffs -fp on my root file > system and it returned with no errors. It just printed some > information about number of files, used, free space, etc., ending with > the interesting fact of .3% fragmentation. > > Then I reran it without the -fp and it printed Phase 1 - Phase 5, no > errors, and again some info on the files. > > So, it looks like there is nothing wrong with the root partition. > Which again raises the question, why won't it mount during the boot > process? > > I'm going to try booting with verbose logging and see what that last > line printed is... Well, something got worse. After running fsck_ffs with no errors, I tried to boot the machine. It got to the point where it printed: Booting from BIOS Partition 0 PS2 keyboard detected PS2 mouse detected and it just hangs at that point. -- John