From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 17 00:01:07 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E922A649 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:01:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Received: from mailhost.m5p.com (ip-2-1-0-2.r03.asbnva02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [IPv6:2001:418:0:5000::16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6C501F0C for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:01:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonderland.m5p.com (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mailhost.m5p.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r3H011Xc024891; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:01:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Message-ID: <516DE63D.8070409@m5p.com> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:01:01 -0400 From: George Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20121125 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Johnston Subject: Re: After a source upgrade from 8.3-RELEASE to r249432 (HEAD) References: <516C5BE2.50005@m5p.com> <20130416005702.GA5006@gloom.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20130416005702.GA5006@gloom.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 10.100.0.3 X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (mailhost.m5p.com [IPv6:::1]); Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:01:06 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:01:08 -0000 On 04/15/13 20:57, Mark Johnston wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 03:58:26PM -0400, George Mitchell wrote: >> >> It was pretty successful. All my 8.3 packages are still running very >> happily, though at some point I imagine I will have to update and >> recompile them. >> >> But ... >> >> When I press ENTER in the boot0 screen, I get the hyphen that will start >> spinning after a timeout and begin loading boot1 (which, as far as I >> know, I have not updated). boot1 (I think) presents me with a prompt >> that does not respond to key presses on the keyboard. It times out and >> continues loading anyway. At this stage, I am always presented with a >> manual mountroot: prompt, and I have to type "ufs:/dev/ada0s1a" to get >> any further. > > I ran into this too. It was caused by a problem in r249408 and is fixed > as of r249436. Updating your kernel to something beyond r249435 should > make this go away. > > -Mark > Yes, r249436 fixes the mountroot problem. -- George