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Date:      Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:41:57 -0400
From:      Identry <identry@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot failure
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> 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:

<snip>
Booting from BIOS Partition 0
PS2 keyboard detected
PS2 mouse detected

and it just hangs at that point.

-- John



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