From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 16:00:16 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 1330516A403 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:00:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikepeirson@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A37B43D49 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:00:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikepeirson@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so381333nzn for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:00:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AoVdhX04zYwTrRXd4UJ/XogMeJOhv/BMIYpkxAvfp04Y8WgUagG1qbRsQ/jALzp768/JK35pzr4jwhOUEWGFT1MmS39UZMH9he+iiemaQN4LmlpjpWIwVo5kHKjsyA6W/VGcI0aa3g9XF/A93TwiAj8r6Cr6iKlo0CBu1EXKs2c= Received: by 10.65.232.12 with SMTP id j12mr21952692qbr; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.3? ( [72.25.94.94]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id e17sm2266829qbe.2006.09.21.09.00.13; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4512B776.1070909@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:01:58 -0700 From: Mike Peirson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4511D307.1070906@gmail.com> <20060921142037.GA31986@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060921142037.GA31986@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 16:00:16 -0000 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:47:19PM -0700, 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> >> > > Hmmm. this looks like there is no boot sector available. I haven't > seen messages before just exactly like this, but sort of. > > Maybe it would help if you described the sequence of things you > did or tried, such as for the install. > > Which version did you install? > Did you initiate the install (boot) from a CD? If not, what? > Did you choose to use the FreeBSD MBR? > Did you create a FreeBSD slice in sysinstall? > Did you mark that slice as bootable? > Did you create partitions within that FreeBSD slice? > Did you choose which things to install? > Did it appear to load things properly? > > After installation finished and you got the congradulations message, > what did you do? > > ////jerry > >> 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" > Hi Jerry, I started the install from the standard 2 disc set and it is FreeBSD 6.1-release. I used the FreeBSD MBR. I created a FreeBSD slice using up all of the HDD in sysinstall. I did not mark the slice as bootable.. I tried to use that option but it told me that it didn't apply. I created several partitions inside the FreeBSD slice. /, swap, /var, /tmp, /usr, /home, /etc. I did a standard install and chose the Developer set of packages (I don't need X because I plan to run a server). I also went through and added extra programs off of the disc. Everything appeared to load properly. I rebooted after I finished with the install and it began to boot up fine but then I got that mountroot> message. -- Michael Peirson