From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 4 8:16:11 2002 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 9D03D37B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from world.tonkinresolutions.com (233-123.adsl6.netlojix.net [207.71.233.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E50543E65 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:16:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rlnt.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by world.tonkinresolutions.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g94F6Iq76391; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rlnt.net) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:06:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Tonkin X-Sender: nick@world.tonkinresolutions.com To: Ruben de Groot Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble mounting the root filesystem In-Reply-To: <20021004132804.GA21467@ei.bzerk.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:02:24PM -0700, Nick Tonkin typed: > > > > Just installed FreeBSD 4.6.2 on a shiny new box with a Promise Fasttrack > > 100 onboard ATA RAID controller. [ snip ] > > Oct 3 23:00:17 init: /etc/spwd.db: No such file or directory > > Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > You can not just put /etc on another filesystem. Many scripts and files > (/etc/rc, /etc/fstab to name two) are needed early in the boot proces, when > only root is mounted. This has nothing to do with your raid controller. That sounds like exactly it! I created a slice for /etc since I thought the default size for the / slice (256Mb) was too small. Thanks a million. Off to rebuild! Wonder of there's a way to change the slices around without re-installing everything. - nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message