On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakh <bugrepor...@haakh.de> wrote: > Polytropon schrieb: >> >> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >>> >>> Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs >>> bootables. >>> >>> I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick... >>> >> >> Check if you can download FreeSBIE somewhere. It's a live system >> using the 5.x and 6.x kernel which should be fine. Next to two >> GUI modes (light, heavy) it also has a versatile "maintenance mode" >> for such operations. I have already successfully used this system >> for solving similar situations, for diagnostics, and for data >> recovery preparation. >> >> > > The loader obviously knows how to deal with the filesystem because he loads > the failing new kernel. So the easiest solution would be to boot an older > kernel if available. I don't know how freebsd-update deals with older > kernels, > he should still be around. First guess is /boot/kernel.old/kernel. > So get the loader-prompt, "unload kernel" and try "load > /boot/kernel.old/kernel". > > Andreas
That seems like a worthy thing to try. I'll do that tomorrow. Thanks, Kurt _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
