From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 10 16:39:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C0716A416 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:39:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drseuk@sdf-eu.org) Received: from sdf-eu.org (sdf-eu.ORG [192.94.73.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ADA943D5A for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:39:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drseuk@sdf-eu.org) Received: from sdf-eu.org (IDENT:drseuk@droog.sdf-eu.org [192.94.73.35]) by sdf-eu.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAAGcw7I016013 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:38:58 GMT Received: from localhost (drseuk@localhost) by sdf-eu.org (8.13.8/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id kAAGcwBK023458 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:38:58 GMT Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:38:58 +0000 (UTC) From: drseuk@sdf-eu.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:39:13 -0000 Hi, This has just occurred to one of our servers that installed and has been working fine for months. The only thing that changed between it booting and not booting was that we unplugged the keyboard and mouse prior to the last successful boot and now get the mountroot message (even though the keyboard and mouse are now plugged back in). Does 6.1 assume that it should "become a serial console controlled server" automatically if no KB/ mouse is attached and then alter some configuration setting? (I'm guessing). Regards, James -- drseuk@sdf-eu.org SDF-EU Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf-eu.org