Hello all, I just joined this mailing list because I don't know where to look for help. I hope someone can help me on my problem. I first installed FreeBSD 8.0 a few weeks after it was officially released. It was working fine and was able to upgrade it until 8.0-p3. The system was last rebooted maybe sometime on March 2010. Then I manually rebooted it and now, it is unable to boot. The machine is made up of an Intel D945GCLF2 with 1GB RAM and 1TB SATA HDD. This is my home server. Kindly check the screenshot at http://imagebin.org/102605 for the screen output during bootup. I don't know how to recover this system and hopefully someone could help me on how to do it. Thank you in advance. Regards, GNUbie
GNUbie, > Kindly check the screenshot at http://imagebin.org/102605 for the > screen output during bootup. I don't know how to recover this system > and hopefully someone could help me on how to do it. Can you boot the old kernel[1]? [1] See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-trouble.html -- -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris, Web/Mail/Proxy/... http://halplant.com:2001/ "Machines take me by surprise with great frequency" - Alan Turing
Hello Andrew, On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Andrew J. Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> wrote:> GNUbie, > >> Kindly check the screenshot at http://imagebin.org/102605 for the >> screen output during bootup. I don't know how to recover this system >> and hopefully someone could help me on how to do it. > > Can you boot the old kernel[1]? > > [1] See > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-trouble.htmlI'm sorry for the late reply as I've been busy for the past 5 days. No, I can't boot from my old kernel. Also, I didn't customized the kernel. How can I proceed from here? Thank you in advance. Regards, GNUbie
Hello MV, On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:47 PM, M. Vale <maurovale@gmail.com> wrote:> > Hum strange I've seen this occur on 2 types of situations: > > 1 - virtualbox or other module loaded at boot time > 2 - Hardware problem > > To fix it you have a list of small options. > > The first one is by booting with the FreeBSD CD and choosing rescue/upgrade > system > > Other option is by removing Memory DIMM's to ensure that the problem is not > caused by a fault RAM module.I am currently running memtest86 here on my livecd. If there is no error, then this could be something else. Still strange for me on the stdout before my system reboots that says: "Cannot dump. Device not defined or unavailable." Does it mean that when loading the kernel, it cannot dump it to the / or some other designated place? Regards, GNUbie
Hello Michal, On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Michal <michal@ionic.co.uk> wrote:> >> So, what can you recommend in order to confirm if the RAM is faulty or >> not? > > Some different sticksThat I need to buy another 1GB stick tomorrow. Regards, GNUbie