fubar'ed it good this time...

[Dr. A. Haakh]

Polytropon schrieb:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
>    
>> Your advice sounds reasonable, but that site seems devoted to zfs bootables.
>>
>> I wonder if an 8.1 livefs iso will do the trick...
>>      
> Check if you can download FreeSBIE somewhere. It's a live system
> using the 5.x and 6.x kernel which should be fine. Next to two
> GUI modes (light, heavy) it also has a versatile "maintenance mode"
> for such operations. I have already successfully used this system
> for solving similar situations, for diagnostics, and for data
> recovery preparation.
>
>    
The loader obviously knows how to deal with the filesystem because he loads
the failing new kernel. So the easiest solution would be to boot an older
kernel if available. I don't know how freebsd-update deals with older 
kernels,
he should still be around. First guess is /boot/kernel.old/kernel.
So get the loader-prompt, "unload kernel" and try "load 
/boot/kernel.old/kernel".

Andreas