Newbie: Caught in Boot Crash Circle
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Newbie here:
uname -mrs == FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p15 amd64Device was working great for weeks, then inexplicably crashed. Now if I let the device boot without a single intervention, there's a crash of some kind, then an immediate reboot.
The only thing logged in /var/crash is a file named minfree with 2048 as the only line.
Attempts to boot the system:
Single user mode.
File system is mounted read only. Cannot do anything as the system is in read only mode. /usr/local/bin/php /etc/rc.conf_mount_rw returns fatal error because it can't open anything on /tmp Cannot umount. Cannot mount -o remountBoot with kernel.old
Cannot find kernel.Booting to a live usb stick allows me to run fdisk, but nothing changes. How do I get out of this bind?
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Boot to single user mode, run "/sbin/fsck -y /" several times until it stops finding errors and then try again.
If that fails, we'll need to know the exact text of the crash message, so capture it one way or another and copy it here.
Reinstalling is a good choice as well, if you choose Rescue install it will attempt to mount and recover the config.xml from the disk assuming it's readable.
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Jimp,
There's an issue with the hardware (SSD) because fsck just doesn't work.
Thank you for the reply.
