From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 17:44:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bom.thegrid.net (xbom.thegrid.net [209.162.0.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1845437B621 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:44:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@thegrid.net) Received: from thegrid.net (cookie.thegrid.net [192.168.2.11]) by bom.thegrid.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA09132; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:44:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <38F66AE3.55295D37@thegrid.net> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:48:35 -0700 From: Tony Rini - Network Operations Organization: The Grid Inc, A OneMain.Com Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Ogren Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: 4.0 only mounts / on boot References: <38F5CECB.41C67EA6@worldy.com> <20000413190604.A233@parish> <38F616A6.97A3D612@thegrid.net> <20000413201754.B3583@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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