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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>
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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.
> >
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