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Date:      Mon, 5 Nov 2018 13:05:56 -0500
From:      "David K. Gerry" <david.k.gerry@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot halts at trying to mount root
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Greetings Eduardo,


On 11/5/2018 12:40 PM, Eduardo Lemos de Sa wrote:
> May I suggest you to boot with the older kernel (type 5 and the kernel.old
> is automatically choose). This will put your system in working state and
> then, you can try to found where the problem is.

I don't know what kernel type 5 is but I did edit /boot/loader.conf and
set kernel="kernel.old" which did boot the 11.0 kernel. However the
booting process halted at the same place.

> 
> My bad experience was when I moved from 11.1 to 11.2: nvidia binary driver
> is the culprit. I fixed making it using ports.
> 
> My best wishes
> 
> Eduardo

David Gerry
Boston, Massachusetts




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