Boot error

[rajoor]

Gayn Winters wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of rajoor
>>Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:21 PM
>>To: Giorgos Keramidas
>>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>Subject: Re: Boot error
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>>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
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>>>On 2005-12-23 14:18, Ariane & Ron Joordens 
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>><joordens at aanet.com.au> wrote:
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>>>>Afternoon All,
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>>>>My FreeBSD 6.0 computer refuses to boot. It gets to the 
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>>screen where it
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>>>>pauses for 10 seconds and gives you the choice of 8 boot 
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>>options, and
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>>>>then...nothing!
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>>>>Choosing the default option shows a single line 
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>>"/boot/kernel/acpi.ko
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>>>>text= etc,..." then the next line shows "|", and that's it. All the
>>>>other boot options show just the "|" and that's it. I have 
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>>waited for up
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>>>>to 30 minutes, but no change. The only way out is to reset 
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>>the computer.
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>>>>Prior to this prblem the computer worked perfectly. FreeBSD 5.4 was
>>>>installed about 4 months ago, this was upgraded to 6.0 
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>>about 2 months
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>>>>ago. Everything had been recompiled and I never had any 
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>>problems, until
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>>>>this.
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>>>>I suspect that my 2 year old son has been pressing the power button
>>>>repeatedly which may have caused this.
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>>>Do you still have the FreeBSD install CD-ROM?  You can use 
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>>that to boot.
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>>>DON'T INSTALL ANYTHING, though :)
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>>>Just make sure that the CD-ROM boots fine up to the sysinstall menu.
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>>>If that works, then there's definitely something wrong with 
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>>the kernel
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>>>or the other boot files you have on disk, and we'll see what can be
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>>Thanks Giorgos,
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>>The install cd boots just fine. So I then looked up the 
>>manual and tried 
>>to boot from /boot/kernel.old.kernel but that doesn't work either.
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>>What can we do next?
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>>Ron
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>Next:  Boot from a CD that has diagnostics and check your hard drive. 
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>-gayn
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Gayn & Giorgos,

I figured it out late last night. I used the install cd to enter "fixit" 
mode. Mounting the hard drive failed with "operation not permitted" 
message. "fsck" failed to complaining about no fstab. After googling I 
finally found the "fsck_ffs -y /dev/ad0s1a" command which worked for me. 
After that I could mount the hard disk. I made no changes and rebooted 
the system and everything was back to normal.

Thanks for your input.

Ron




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