Re: Boot error

Gayn Winters wrote:



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Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:21 PM
To: Giorgos Keramidas
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Subject: Re: Boot error


Giorgos Keramidas wrote:



On 2005-12-23 14:18, Ariane & Ron Joordens

<joordens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:






Afternoon All,

My FreeBSD 6.0 computer refuses to boot. It gets to the

screen where it


pauses for 10 seconds and gives you the choice of 8 boot

options, and


then...nothing!

Choosing the default option shows a single line

"/boot/kernel/acpi.ko


text= etc,..." then the next line shows "|", and that's it. All the
other boot options show just the "|" and that's it. I have

waited for up


to 30 minutes, but no change. The only way out is to reset

the computer.


Prior to this prblem the computer worked perfectly. FreeBSD 5.4 was
installed about 4 months ago, this was upgraded to 6.0

about 2 months


ago. Everything had been recompiled and I never had any

problems, until


this.

I suspect that my 2 year old son has been pressing the power button
repeatedly which may have caused this.




Do you still have the FreeBSD install CD-ROM? You can use

that to boot.


DON'T INSTALL ANYTHING, though :)

Just make sure that the CD-ROM boots fine up to the sysinstall menu.

If that works, then there's definitely something wrong with

the kernel


or the other boot files you have on disk, and we'll see what can be
done.





Thanks Giorgos,

The install cd boots just fine. So I then looked up the manual and tried to boot from /boot/kernel.old.kernel but that doesn't work either.

What can we do next?

Ron



Next: Boot from a CD that has diagnostics and check your hard drive. 

-gayn

Bristol Systems Inc.
714/532-6776
www.bristolsystems.com 


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Gayn & Giorgos,

I figured it out late last night. I used the install cd to enter "fixit" mode. Mounting the hard drive failed with "operation not permitted" message. "fsck" failed to complaining about no fstab. After googling I finally found the "fsck_ffs -y /dev/ad0s1a" command which worked for me. After that I could mount the hard disk. I made no changes and rebooted the system and everything was back to normal.

Thanks for your input.

Ron




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