From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 18:43:02 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA04819 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 18:43:02 -0700 Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA04812 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 18:42:58 -0700 Received: from mocha.eng.umd.edu (mocha.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.16]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) with ESMTP id VAA28500; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 21:42:56 -0400 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by mocha.eng.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.4) id VAA14308; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 21:42:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 21:42:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "Ken S. Chun" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tech Supports In-Reply-To: <9508282047.AA19632@jcis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, Ken S. Chun wrote: > Hi: > > I am trying to install and test Free BSD 2.0.5. > When the Free BSD CD_ROM was in the CD ROM drive, system boots up well. > But the system does not boot up without the CD ROM in the CD ROM > drive with the following Message on the screen. > > cd9660: /dev/cd0a: Device not Configured > Filesystem mount failed, Startup aborted > Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: > > Please give me the direction how to boot from the Hard Disk even > without the Free BSD CD ROM. Thanks for your help. > > > from Ken Chun > Phone: (510) 659-8440 > E Mail: kenc@jcis.com Just saw this question. Look at file /etc/fstab, which is used to automatically mount filesystems. Find the line with /dev/cd0a in it, and delete it. You won't have that problem anymore, but neither will you have the stuff in the cdrom drive automatically mounted anymore. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------