System Drops to manual mount root prompt after HDD duplication

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Tue May 15 07:06:37 UTC 2007


On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:20:09AM +0200 I heard the voice of
Dag-Erling Smørgrav, and lo! it spake thus:
> David Cramblett <david at functionalchaos.net> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > > What's in your /boot.config and /boot/loader.conf?
> > I have no boot.config.
> >
> > [root at www /]# cat /boot/loader.conf
> > # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- #
> > userconfig_script_load="YES"
> 
> Beats me...  I can't even remember what userconfig_script is
> supposed to do.  Note that support for 5.2.1 ended on July 31, 2004.

Neither can I, but last weekend I upgraded some 4.x boxes to 5.x and
then 6.x, and with the 5.x loader they croaked before booting until I
took those userconfig_script_load lines out.


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