Upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE from 6.2-STABLE

[Mark Stout]

I couldn't load da0s1a even though /dev/da0s1a is my root drive.  Manually load my old kernel from the prompt worked.

I believe the mountroot is during the boot load.  I'm not anywhere near being able to do anything.

I have no idea what the problem is.

 [jackbarnett at gmail.com] wrote:

no idea, but maybe:
    boot /boot/kernel/kernel   
or
    boot /boot/kernel.old/kernel

What is 'mountroot' - is that the boot loader or the kernel/system 
giving you that?

try mounting your root drive!

do a `df -k`, anything already mounted?

oh!  or try:
    fsck

did it ask you to login?


Mark Stout wrote:
> I followed all the steps in the handbook as well as UPDATED and after a installworld and mergemaster its booting into 'mountroot>' and nothing I type mounts.  This is a production machine so I'm in dire need of assistence.
>
>  [illoai at gmail.com] wrote:
> On 11/06/07, Mark Stout <mcs at vpm.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>> Following the tasks in Rebuilding "world" in the handbook
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html I removed the
>>> /usr/obj directory and did a buildworld.  When tryinmg to compile the kernel its failing on
>>> unknown option "MD5".  Commenting that out it fails on the line above MD5,  options LKM.
>>>  What's happening here?  These two options papear in the LINT file.  I can't find anything
>>> that explains why this would happen.
>>>       
>> A follow-up to my last email.  I copied GENERIC to RADIUS2 and
>> symlinked to /root/kernel.  Then added the various LINT options.
>>
>> I started commenting out what is failing when I try to compile a new
>> kernel.  All are from the LINT file.  Is MD5 a default that does not
>> need to be specifically added?  What about ICMP_BANDLIM?  And
>> support for IDE drives. Are these already handed elsewhere in GENERIC?
>>
>> # These all failed as unknown options:
>> unknown option "MD5"
>> unknown option "LKM"
>> unknown option "CD9660_ROOTDELAY"
>> unknown option "NSWAPDEV"
>> unknown option "TCP_COMPAT_42"
>> unknown option "ICMP_BANDLIM"  (found in Handbook in Chapter 14 Securing FreeBSD)
>>
>>
>> # Do not understand why these are fialing
>> config: Error: device "acd0" is unknown
>> config: Error: device "wfd0" is unknown
>> config: Error: device "wst0" is unknown
>>
>> # This failed as a syntax error
>> controller      wdc0    at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14
>>
>>     
>
> Most of the above looks like old, deprecated
> stuff from 5.x and earlier (the "controller wdc0"
> line reminds me of 3.x or maybe NetBSD).
>
> IDE drive support is all handled by ata(4), all
> you should need for those in your kernel config
> is:
> device          ata
> device          atadisk
> device          atapicd
> (and obviously:)
> device eisa
> device pci
> Which are already part of GENERIC.
>
> /usr/src/sys/<arch>/conf/LINT doesn't exist in 6.x.
> Try looking at /usr/src/sys/<arch>/conf/NOTES
> and /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES for knobs to twist
> and buttons to push.
>
>