Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Mike Barnard
Thanks Phillip, > 1) you can have a boot hint in file /boot/loader.conf to say where the > system should take the root file system (and therefore /etc/fstab) from. This would work if the OS was able to detect the disk. In this case, after I boot the STABLE installation, i do not see any hard d

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi Wes, > Have you checked the jumper settings on the drive? There may be a jumper > forcing SATA150 mode on the drive. I'd reset everything to factory defaults > if possible. > It's the first thing I did and I did it for the sake of doing it since this is a brand new computer straight out of HP

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Wes Morgan
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Mike Barnard wrote: Hi All, I have run into a problem that seem rather puzzling. I have upgraded an installation of FreeBSD from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.0-STABLE and 7.1-STABLE, but i fail to boot with either one of the STABLE upgrades. I end up at this point: Trying to mount ro

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Mike Barnard
Thanks John On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:43 PM, wrote: > I entered ufs:ad7s1a and booted the kernel when I > recognized that the drive had been re-named from ad9 to ad7. After > booting, I changed /etc/fstab appropiately and have had no further > problems. I've never run into this with previous u

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Mike Barnard
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Mike Barnard: > >no, i have this: > >options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables. > >options GEOM_LABEL # Provides labelization > > Try adding GEOM_PART_BSD then. no change

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread jjr
Mike, I ran into this very issue on a Mac Pro that I installed 7.1-RELEASE on and then cvsup'd, make buildworld to 7.1-STABLE. On my machine, 7.1-RELEASE named the drives ad8, ad9, and ad10 (I have 3 drives and installed 7.1-RELEASE on ad9). When I booted the STABLE keneral (GENERIC no tweaks),

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Mike Barnard: >no, i have this: >options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables. >options GEOM_LABEL # Provides labelization Try adding GEOM_PART_BSD then. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- robe...@keltia.freenix

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Mike Barnard
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Mike Barnard: > > Any one with any ideas? > > Do you have GEOM_BSD in your kernel configuration file? no, i have this: options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables. options GEOM_LABEL

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Mike Barnard: > Any one with any ideas? Do you have GEOM_BSD in your kernel configuration file? -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- robe...@keltia.freenix.fr Dons / donation Ondine : http://ondine.keltia.net/ ___ freebsd

Unable to boot after upgrade to 7.0 or 7.1 STABLE

2009-01-29 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi All, I have run into a problem that seem rather puzzling. I have upgraded an installation of FreeBSD from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.0-STABLE and 7.1-STABLE, but i fail to boot with either one of the STABLE upgrades. I end up at this point: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Manual root filesyst