cannot boot after updating to 5.3 stable

[Subhro]

You can boot off a live file system (the fixit CD/floppy) and examine the 
mountpoints which are already available on the hard disk. I have the feeling 
that the reason why it is not booting is, you are not setting the proper mount 
point.

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: Della Virgina [mailto:rino at melsa.net.id]
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 6:51
> To: Subhro
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: cannot boot after updating to 5.3 stable
>
> Thanks for the answer,
>
>
> But i have no luck, it still won't boot :
>
> mountroot>?
>
> ad0
> fd0
>
> mountroot>ufs:ad0s1a
>
> 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>
>
>
> Thanks for the answer.
>
>
> DL vG.
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