You can boot off a live file system (the fixit CD/floppy) and examine the mountpoints which are already available on the hard disk. I have the feeling that the reason why it is not booting is, you are not setting the proper mount point.
Regards, S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India > -----Original Message----- > From: Della Virgina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 6:51 > To: Subhro > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: cannot boot after updating to 5.3 stable > > Thanks for the answer, > > > But i have no luck, it still won't boot : > > mountroot>? > > ad0 > fd0 > > mountroot>ufs:ad0s1a > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > setrootbyname failed > ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp > Root mount failed: 6 > > Manual root filesystem specification: > <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> > eg. ufs:da0s1a > ? List valid disk boot devices > <empty line> Abort manual input > > mountroot> > > > Thanks for the answer. > > > DL vG.
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