cannot boot after updating to 5.3 stable

[Subhro]

Your problem is, somehow the mountpoint entries in /etc/fstab have messed
up. As a result the system cant find the root file system. At the 
Mount>
Prompt type ? to get a list of all the valid mountpoints. Then manually
mount all the mount points. Once you point the system the "root" it will
straight go into the single user mode. You can then go into /dev and see
what partitions are there. Mount the partitions manually and then open up
/etc/fstab in your favorite text editor and make the necessary changes. The
nnext boot onwards the box won't complain.
BTW, you wont be able to open any text editor until and unless /usr is
mounted. Because all the binaries (including the text editor, vi in my case)
resides in /usr.

Regards,
S.

Indian Institute of Information Technology
Subhro Sankha Kar
Block AQ-13/1, Sector V
Salt Lake City
PIN 700091
India
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Rino M Nur
> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 8:03
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: cannot boot after updating to 5.3 stable
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I've been updating to 5.3 stable. but after make installkernel, my box
> won't boot and error says :
> 
> boot:boot -s
> 
> ...
> 
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> setrootbyname failed
> ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> Root mount failed: 6
> 
> Manual root filesystem specification:
>    <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
>                         eg. ufs:da0s1a
>    ?                  List valid disk boot devices
>    <empty line>       Abort manual input
> 
>  mountroot>
> 
> 
> my device.hints :
> 
> 
> hint.fdc.0.at="isa"
> hint.fdc.0.port="0x3F0"
> hint.fdc.0.irq="6"
> hint.fdc.0.drq="2"
> hint.fd.0.at="fdc0"
> hint.fd.0.drive="0"
> hint.fd.1.at="fdc0"
> hint.fd.1.drive="1"
> hint.ata.0.at="isa"
> hint.ata.0.port="0x1F0"
> hint.ata.0.irq="14"
> hint.ata.1.at="isa"
> hint.ata.1.port="0x170"
> hint.ata.1.irq="15"
> #hint.adv.0.at="isa"
> #hint.adv.0.disabled="1"
> #hint.bt.0.at="isa"
> #hint.bt.0.disabled="1"
> #hint.aha.0.at="isa"
> #hint.aha.0.disabled="1"
> hint.aic.0.at="isa"
> hint.aic.0.disabled="1"
> hint.atkbdc.0.at="isa"
> hint.atkbdc.0.port="0x060"
> hint.atkbd.0.at="atkbdc"
> hint.atkbd.0.irq="1"
> hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
> hint.psm.0.irq="12"
> hint.vga.0.at="isa"
> hint.sc.0.at="isa"
> hint.sc.0.flags="0x100"
> hint.vt.0.at="isa"
> hint.vt.0.disabled="1"
> hint.apm.0.disabled="1"
> hint.apm.0.flags="0x20"
> hint.pcic.0.at="isa"
> # hint.pcic.0.irq="10"  # Default to polling
> 
> # hint.pcic.0.irq="10"  # Default to polling
> hint.pcic.0.port="0x3e0"
> hint.pcic.0.maddr="0xd0000"
> hint.pcic.1.at="isa"
> hint.pcic.1.irq="11"
> hint.pcic.1.port="0x3e2"
> hint.pcic.1.maddr="0xd4000"
> hint.pcic.1.disabled="1"
> hint.sio.0.at="isa"
> hint.sio.0.port="0x3F8"
> hint.sio.0.flags="0x10"
> hint.sio.0.irq="4"
> hint.sio.1.at="isa"
> hint.sio.1.port="0x2F8"
> hint.sio.1.irq="3"
> hint.sio.2.at="isa"
> hint.sio.2.disabled="1"
> hint.sio.2.port="0x3E8"
> hint.sio.2.irq="5"
> hint.sio.3.at="isa"
> hint.sio.3.disabled="1"
> hint.sio.3.port="0x2E8"
> hint.sio.3.irq="9"
> hint.ppc.0.at="isa"
> hint.ppc.0.irq="7"
> hint.ed.0.at="isa"
> hint.ed.0.disabled="1"
> hint.ed.0.port="0x280"
> hint.ed.0.irq="10"
> hint.ed.0.maddr="0xd8000"
> hint.cs.0.at="isa"
> hint.cs.0.disabled="1"
> hint.cs.0.port="0x300"
> hint.sn.0.at="isa"
> hint.sn.0.disabled="1"
> hint.sn.0.port="0x300"
> hint.sn.0.irq="10"
> hint.ie.0.at="isa"
> hint.ie.0.disabled="1"
> hint.ie.0.port="0x300"
> hint.ie.0.irq="10"
> hint.ie.0.maddr="0xd0000"
> hint.fe.0.at="isa"
> hint.fe.0.disabled="1"
> hint.fe.0.port="0x300"
> hint.lnc.0.at="isa"
> hint.lnc.0.disabled="1"
> hint.lnc.0.port="0x280"
> hint.lnc.0.irq="10"
> hint.lnc.0.drq="0"
> 
> my /etc/fstab :
> 
> # of network filesystems before modifying this file.
> #
> # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
> Pass#
> /dev/ad0s1b             none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/ad0s1a             /               ufs     rw              1       1
> /dev/ad0s1g             /cache          ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad0s1f             /home           ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/ad0s1e             /usr            ufs     rw              2       2
> /dev/acd0c              /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0       0
> proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0       0
> 
> 
> 
> anyone can help me ?
> 
> Dl. Vg.
> 
> 
> 
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