Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:48:35 -0700 From: Tony Rini - Network Operations <tony@thegrid.net> To: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> Cc: FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.0 only mounts / on boot Message-ID: <38F66AE3.55295D37@thegrid.net> References: <38F5CECB.41C67EA6@worldy.com> <20000413190604.A233@parish> <38F616A6.97A3D612@thegrid.net> <20000413201754.B3583@earthlink.net>
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Thanks! That should have been obvious. I feel like such a moron now. Tony Eric Ogren wrote: > > Having /etc as a separate partition is your problem. The boot loader > knows where to find the root partition and nothing else, which means that > FreeBSD loads, mounts the root partition, looks for /etc/fstab, can't find > it because /etc is not mounted, and therefore doesn't mount any > partitions. > If you move /etc back into the root partition, you should be fine. > > Eric > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 11:49:10AM -0700, Tony Rini - Network Operations wrote: > > I installed 4.0-RELEASE on a dual pII 333 Dell box with 3 scsi drives. 1 > > on motherboard adaptec scsi controller carrying 2 9GB drives and cdrom > > and a pci adaptec 2940 carrying a 4GB drive and a dat drive. The OS is > > on the 4GB drive and has been sliced up into /, /usr, /etc, /var. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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