7.2 system stuck trying at boot, trying to mount root device

[usleepless at gmail.com]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:13:41 -0400, Forrest Aldrich <forrie at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I also did a proper mount, fsck, and umount under the LiveFS shell,
> > which made no difference.
>
> I hope I'm just reading it in the wrong order. The correct
> order is to 1st fsck, then mount, not vice versa. Never
> fsck a mounted file system.
>
>
>
> > The other messages I see on the console include GEOM output:
> >
> > GEOM_LABEL:  Label for provider ad4s1a is ufsid/blahblah
> >
> > then
> >
> > GEOM_LABEL: Label for ufsid/blahblah removed.
>
> This is completely normal today. As long as a file system is
> not mounted, the label is provided. When it gets mounted, this
> label is being removed. You see this on your console.
>
>
>
> > Anyone know how I can rescue this?
>
> Does /var/log/messages show something strange looking?
>
>
I experienced similar behaviour recently when i had built kernel+userland
with "-fomit-frame-pointer".

I ended up doing a "repair" from an install CD, and rebuilding kernel+world
without "-fomit-frame-pointer" afterwards.

Your "init" is probably broken.

regards,

usleepless



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