From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 12:33:17 2003 Return-Path: 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 A775416A4CF for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:33:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from yoda.anything-inc.com (adsl-068-153-193-052.sip.bct.bellsouth.net [68.153.193.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA73543FDF for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:33:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@anything-inc.com) X-AuthUser: freebsd@anything-inc.com Received: from neo.anything-inc.com (68.153.193.50:3506)Server] ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:41:06 -0500 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20031030152350.00a9e260@anything-inc.com> X-Sender: freebsd@anything-inc.com@anything-inc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:29:15 -0500 To: FreeBSD From: Bob Collins Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.5 tests=none version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: cannot boot, at mountroot> prompt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:33:17 -0000 I have a system running 5.0-RELEASE on an AMD 667Mhz processor with 256MB ram, Soyo mobo. Install was no trouble, and setup of X, KDE, MySQL, Apache went fine. I ran a setup of both xmms and mplayer as well. Then I went for an install of Webmin. Once webmin was complete, I was running in KDE, I closed the term window and the machine rebooted immediately, no shutdown, nothing. Question, does this sound like a bad drive, RAM, or perhaps my bad luck. Second question, how can I address the mountroot> prompt? Per the instructions at the prompt, I put in ufs:/dev/ad0s1a and hit the return key. The system then reboots. Thanks Bob