Boot halts at trying to mount root

David K. Gerry david.k.gerry at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 18:05:57 UTC 2018


Greetings Eduardo,


On 11/5/2018 12:40 PM, Eduardo Lemos de Sa wrote:
> May I suggest you to boot with the older kernel (type 5 and the kernel.old
> is automatically choose). This will put your system in working state and
> then, you can try to found where the problem is.

I don't know what kernel type 5 is but I did edit /boot/loader.conf and
set kernel="kernel.old" which did boot the 11.0 kernel. However the
booting process halted at the same place.

> 
> My bad experience was when I moved from 11.1 to 11.2: nvidia binary driver
> is the culprit. I fixed making it using ports.
> 
> My best wishes
> 
> Eduardo

David Gerry
Boston, Massachusetts



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