Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

i finally got a 7.1 livefs fixit shell to work and i was able to mount ad4s1a. i fscb'ed all the slices on ad4 and they look ok. i changed fstab to refer to /dev/ad4* instead of /dev/ mirror/gm0* and got rid of geom_mirror_load="YES" from /boot/loader.conf. and i ran gmirror clear. none of this d

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Tom Worster wrote: i sent the following to -questions yesterday morning but had no luck. can anyone where give me tips or pointers? I had this problem with a Dell M600 blade. I was able to install from a 6.4 ISO, then binary update to 7.0, but when I tried to get to 8.0 I

won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

i sent the following to -questions yesterday morning but had no luck. can anyone where give me tips or pointers? tia tom after running freebsd-update -r 8.0-RELEASE upgrade my system won't boot. it gets stuck on mountroot and i can't find the magic word it wants. the system used to have two sat