Disk can't be found, boot stops at mountroot

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Leslie Jensen <leslie at eskk.nu> wrote:

>
>
> On 2010-05-12 00:06, Adam Vande More wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Leslie Jensen <leslie at eskk.nu
>> <mailto:leslie at eskk.nu>> wrote:
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>>    System 7.2-RELEASE
>>
>>    I made the first reboot after
>>
>>    freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE
>>
>>    freebsd-update install
>>
>>    and I'm now stuck at the mountroot> prompt that says trying to mount
>>    from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>>
>>    ROOT MOUNT ERROR
>>
>>    The command ? to list valid boot devices gives
>>    List of GEOM managed disk devices:
>>    cd0 ufsid/452b81499eec5ac8 ad0a acd0 ad0 fd0
>>
>>    I've tried
>>
>>    ufs:/dev/da0s1a
>>
>>    and
>>
>>    ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
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>>    With no luck
>>
>>    Any suggestions on how to get booted?
>>
>>
>> If you boot off a 7.2 cd, can you see the proper partitions?  What are
>> they?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Adam Vande More
>>
>
> I used a 8.0 livefs CD and all I could find was ad0 and ad0a. Using
> sysinstall fdisk showed an empty disk!
>

**If you boot off a 7.2 cd**


>
> So I think I have some kind of hardware failure :-(
>
> /Leslie
>
>


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Adam Vande More