Hello,
Briefly, I am running FBSD Release 8p2 installed as FBSD from the PC-BSD install disk (maybe matters?). I had a hard lock-up with KDE 4.4.3 and had to shut down the computer. Upon reboot the boot loader will only proceed as far as reading the three disks installed and then stalls without proceeding beyond that.
Booting off the PC-BSD CD I have the exact same problem. I can however boot with the FBSD 8 Release disk and get into Fixit mode. I have tried to read documentation on how to fix this, but I am not clear on the actual problem. Initially in /dev I had all of my partitions for the boot disk and I had rootfs0, swap, var0, usr0 in /dev/label. The fstab when mounting ad4s1 (boot disk) has entries for all four labels.
I thought maybe it was a boot loader problem, so I did the
[CMD="boot0cfg"]-B ad4[/CMD]
Upon reboot I did have a choice and I chose FreeBSD. It stalled at the exact same spot.
I'm am not clear on what happened or how to fix it. I would really like not to have to reinstall everything as it will take days and days. My user data is on a ZFS partition so it is safe. However, I cannot mount the ZFS paritition in Fixit mode to save my configuration files.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Briefly, I am running FBSD Release 8p2 installed as FBSD from the PC-BSD install disk (maybe matters?). I had a hard lock-up with KDE 4.4.3 and had to shut down the computer. Upon reboot the boot loader will only proceed as far as reading the three disks installed and then stalls without proceeding beyond that.
Booting off the PC-BSD CD I have the exact same problem. I can however boot with the FBSD 8 Release disk and get into Fixit mode. I have tried to read documentation on how to fix this, but I am not clear on the actual problem. Initially in /dev I had all of my partitions for the boot disk and I had rootfs0, swap, var0, usr0 in /dev/label. The fstab when mounting ad4s1 (boot disk) has entries for all four labels.
I thought maybe it was a boot loader problem, so I did the
[CMD="boot0cfg"]-B ad4[/CMD]
Upon reboot I did have a choice and I chose FreeBSD. It stalled at the exact same spot.
I'm am not clear on what happened or how to fix it. I would really like not to have to reinstall everything as it will take days and days. My user data is on a ZFS partition so it is safe. However, I cannot mount the ZFS paritition in Fixit mode to save my configuration files.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.