From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 9 14:14:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.112.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFBF437B404 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 14:14:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [62.64.205.110] (helo=cream.org) by mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16jp6m-000Mft-00; Sat, 09 Mar 2002 22:14:33 +0000 Message-ID: <3C8A897E.70209@cream.org> Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 22:15:26 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: joe@jwebmedia.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot system References: <3C89479D.CCF78FBE@jwebmedia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joseph Koenig wrote: >I have a new Dell 1500ST. CHARLES with an 18GB RAID 1 - 1.13 GHz, 512MB >RAM. The installation goes fine, but when I try and boot I get: > >Manual root filesystem specification: > >mountroot> > >I can see that the two slices are being detected just fine, the Raid >card is being detected. This is 4.5-RELEASE. Ideas anyone? > I think we probably need some more information about what is going on. What other messages are displayed when you try and boot? Any errors? Where did you put your / slice? >On a side >note, what does the RELEASE tag mean? I know the difference between >STABLE and CURRENT, but where does RELEASE fall? All I can find is into >on STABLE and CURRENT. > A RELEASE is just a partiular point along the -STABLE line. Perodically, the Release Engineering folks put -stable into a code freeze where only fixes to existing functionality are allowed and after a few weeks a new release is tagged, compiled and then made available on CD-ROM and from all the FTP mirrors. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message