From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 03:41:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC97916A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 03:41:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao05.cox.net (lakermmtao05.cox.net [68.230.240.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8A043D41 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 03:41:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from dolphin.local.net ([68.11.70.216]) by lakermmtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP <20050519034125.GTDU13442.lakermmtao05.cox.net@dolphin.local.net>; Wed, 18 May 2005 23:41:25 -0400 Received: from dolphin.local.net (localhost.local.net [IPv6:::1]) by dolphin.local.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j4J3fPLp009034; Wed, 18 May 2005 22:41:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:41:20 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Doug White Message-ID: <20050518224120.2f3062df@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20050518153537.M87264@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20050518153537.M87264@carver.gumbysoft.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4a (GTK+ 1.2.10; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: David Kleiner cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -current: unable to boot (bt_strategy X not multiple of block size) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Thu, 19 May 2005 03:41:30 -0000 On Wed, 18 May 2005 15:36:26 -0700 (PDT), Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2005, David Kleiner wrote: > > > > > This is amd64 Asus A8N mobo, previous -current (May 1) worked fine, > > I cannot boot even into kernel.old any more, the only option is > > older i386 -current and maybe I can fix things from there. The > > boot loader said i386/FreeBSD but I don't remember what it said > > before for amd64 - it was happening too fast. > > Yes, its specific to amd64. There is a /boot/loader.old you can use > just in case, but you need to break into boot2 to get to it. At the > first spinny hit a key and it should drop you to a boot: prompt. Yes, this also occurred on my amd64 box. At first, I was totally stymied as to how to proceed. I ended up booting from a 5.2 CD-ROM, went into fixit mode, mounted / under /mnt and renamed loader.old to loader (after renaming loader to loader.new). Thanks for the tip on how to break out of the loading of the new loader. One of those tricks I had either never learned in the first place, or had completely forgotten about. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"