I'm a relative noob to FreeBSD (it's been awhile) and I am having trouble putting my problem into words, but here it goes!
Background: I'm running 7.2 (no X) and attempting to use Highpoint 2310 RAID controller and run a NFS box so I've been wrestling with getting that to work (installing drivers) in addition to basics like internet.
Problem: I unknowingly left my USB key in the machine during a reboot. Upon kernel loading, I got a error "trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/..." and listed the USB device, and the system was frozen (popular occurrence according to google). I did a hard power cycle and removed the USB keychain but when the system came back up, it said my username/password was wrong. I went in as single user and changed it back but when I got back into the file system, all my modification and drivers were gone.. it's a fresh install, it seems! My login wasn't working because it was not the real admin account I had created, apparently.
Can someone suggest what I should focus on to fix this? Are the mount points messed up? That's my theory anyway..
Thank you, Ben
Background: I'm running 7.2 (no X) and attempting to use Highpoint 2310 RAID controller and run a NFS box so I've been wrestling with getting that to work (installing drivers) in addition to basics like internet.
Problem: I unknowingly left my USB key in the machine during a reboot. Upon kernel loading, I got a error "trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/..." and listed the USB device, and the system was frozen (popular occurrence according to google). I did a hard power cycle and removed the USB keychain but when the system came back up, it said my username/password was wrong. I went in as single user and changed it back but when I got back into the file system, all my modification and drivers were gone.. it's a fresh install, it seems! My login wasn't working because it was not the real admin account I had created, apparently.
Can someone suggest what I should focus on to fix this? Are the mount points messed up? That's my theory anyway..
Thank you, Ben