Re: -current: unable to boot (bt_strategy X not multiple of block size)

From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 12:46:34 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

> On Wed, 18 May 2005 15:36:26 -0700 (PDT), Doug White
> <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 17 May 2005, David Kleiner wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > This is amd64 Asus A8N mobo, previous -current (May 1) worked fine,
> > > I cannot boot even into kernel.old any more, the only option is
> > > older i386 -current and maybe I can fix things from there.   The
> > > boot loader said i386/FreeBSD but I don't remember what it said
> > > before for amd64 - it was happening too fast.
> >
> > Yes, its specific to amd64. There is a /boot/loader.old you can use
> > just in case, but you need to break into boot2 to get to it. At the
> > first spinny hit a key and it should drop you to a boot: prompt.
>
> Yes, this also occurred on my amd64 box.  At first, I was totally
> stymied as to how to proceed.  I ended up booting from a 5.2 CD-ROM,
> went into fixit mode, mounted / under /mnt and renamed loader.old to
> loader (after renaming loader to loader.new).
>
> Thanks for the tip on how to break out of the loading of the new loader.
> One of those tricks I had either never learned in the first place, or
> had completely forgotten about. :-)

BTW a fix has been committed, so things should be good again after your
next update.

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Received on Fri May 20 2005 - 17:46:34 UTC

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