Fixit / LiveFS problems (AMD64)

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Kent Hauser" <kent at khauser.net> writes:

> I recently rebuild a 7-STABLE which refused to boot & then ran into some
> problems trying to recover.
>
> 1) After escaping to the loader prompt, I could only enter a couple of
> characters (eg 2) before the machine hung. Not enough for the "unload /
> load" dance.
>
> 2) After booting from the downloaded 7-RELEASE install ISO (AMD64), I find
> the emergency shell doesn't have mount_ufs, just mount_nfs. Also, no /rescue
> directory. I don't know if this is by design, but how does one mount root or
> any other local disk partition?

mount(8) 

> 3) After downloading & burning the 7-RELEASE LiveFS ISO (AMD64), I find
> fixit told me ld.so-hints could not be created & dynamicly linked programs
> wouldn't run -- and they didn't.

I'm not sure, but shouldn't that get built every boot time?

> 4) So I reinstalled, only newfs'ing /root & pulled the appropriate files
> from a backup.
>
> What am I missing?

Other than the fact that there isn't any mount_ufs, you seem to be okay.