mountroot

I have this nvd0 NVMe ssd, after a power failure, it's stuck in mountroot with error 6. I can link the hwprobe link. Anyone who can shine some light here? I just want to access and transfer data in nvd0p4. Use data recovery tool? live cd? shell? Can't I just install a new system -like...

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/nvme-screwed-zpool-dataset-error-how-to-access-and-safely-recover-data-in-nvd0p4-to-another-device.95567/

My freebsd 13.2 desktop crashed a while ago, I tried boot-repair which went wrong, I kept the drive with its data in cold storage for quite a while. When I try recovery again now, after a long time, freebsd gets to mountroot prompt, ? showed (soon after the crash I tried boot-repair and it...

I am using tmpfs for /tmp and that made a significant difference in chromium as well as other apps that use it, but would essentially like to use it for /. The logical steps I can think of are: 1. create root image, optional compression 2. extract root image contents into memory backed device...

Hello, I asked it on maillist freebsd-questions, but no answers. I have a server with 2x2TB with geli + zfs-mirror disks and zfs on root with gptzfsboot. Disks are ada0 and ada1. Previously they were at ada1 and ada2. I get stuck at mountroot> stage. System starts, I input the passphrase, get...

I am new to BSD. I am having FREEBSD 12 DVD for amd64. I don't know how to get to the installer from the boot menu. What I read in the handbook I should select multiuser mode, but I always get to mountroot prompt as in the picture. Hard to believe this is all it can do on more than 3 Gigs of DVD.

Hello, after make installkernel I got a lot of messages "kldxref: unknown metadata record 4 in file". But I have ignored that. Then I do like it was described in the handbook: shutdown now mount -u / mount -a -t ufs swapon -a cp -Rpv /etc /home/etc-170128 mergemaster -p but it has merged...

Hi all, I'm trying to boot FreeBSD 10.2 from a USB device that I used as the install destination from a liveCD installer. I performed the installation on another system, specifying the flash disk (Patriot XPorter 16GB) as the install target and am now trying to boot a small fileserver from...