Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:50:07 GMT From: "Glenn Trewitt" <glenn@trewitt.org> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/113160: [install] mountroot> prompt during first boot for installation Message-ID: <200707150650.l6F6o7mE018182@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/113160; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Glenn Trewitt" <glenn@trewitt.org> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, businessgeeks@pinoy-compuworld.com Cc: Subject: Re: i386/113160: [install] mountroot> prompt during first boot for installation Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:13:43 -0700 I'm having the same problem on an old-ish VIA system. FreeBSD does find both the hard drive (ad0) and CDROM (acd0). These are master and slave, respectively, on the primary IDE bus. When I provide "cd9660:acd0" for the root device, it continues to boot, but is (unhappily) booting to multiuser with the R/O filesystem. The real problem is that sysinstall isn't automatically started. When I run it by hand it seems to work, but the environment is too strange for it. For example, sysinstall can fdisk the hard drive, but gets sick when it tries to newfs the partitions - it apparently tries to mount them as part of the process and can't create the desired mount points in the R/O root. I used the same CD to boot another system into sysinstall - everything worked as expected.
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