From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 09:07:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 DCF5A16A40F for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:07:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dominique.goncalves@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678E343D46 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:07:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dominique.goncalves@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so578775wxd for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:07:50 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=phD1MMIarRPyJNIeMWkbFxJmrMkXrmjH9F2qsdlBsJ9USpijp4YrsQJ6i8IpgbYZ3ib0tSRU2XlonFx3juVXmEseEglH/HhqHx9yC1qAowVsFuQipJKpYcR3/Gp/NeNfOE1wUoMdt7OLgyczLeKgJlNwaJrfprKr0vJBkjqQXp4= Received: by 10.90.55.19 with SMTP id d19mr7157336aga; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:07:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.50.2 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7daacbbe0609210207m1a28d8bdid2af744ee71524fe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:07:49 +0200 From: "Dominique Goncalves" To: "Mike Peirson" In-Reply-To: <4511D307.1070906@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4511D307.1070906@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:07:50 -0000 Hi, On 9/21/06, Mike Peirson wrote: > Hi all, > First off, I'm new to FreeBSD and this mailinglist so I hope I am in the > right place. Anyways, right now I am having some problems with FreeBSD > booting up. I have tried to install 3 times now and keep getting the > same error. When I try to boot into FreeBSD, this eventually comes up: > > Manual root filesystem specification: > : Mount using filesystem > > eg. ufs:da0s1a > ? List valid disk boot devices > abort manual input > Mountroot> > > This seems to be a prompt where I need to specify the location of the > root partition, but the problem here is that it hangs or freezes and I > cannot input any text. At first I thought it may be a result of FreeBSD > not properly recognizing my HDD's geometry but I manually fixed that and > it still is giving me this same issue. If anyone has had a similar > problem or knows how to fix this I would greatly appreciate any help. I > looked through the Handbook and googled this but I haven't found a > solution yet. > -- > Michael Peirson > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I guess you are using 6.1-RELEASE if so It's a bug in kbdmux, it was solved after in FreeBSD-STABLE. Booting in 'Safe mode' from the beastie menu, should workarround your hang problem. HTH Regards. -- There's this old saying: "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life."