-current: unable to boot (bt_strategy X not multiple of block size)

[Doug White]

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.

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