Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:12:46 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: justin <justins@justnosweat.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mountroot Message-ID: <20061106044246.GL1052@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1598.192.168.50.14.1162761025.squirrel@webmail.justnosweat.net> References: <1598.192.168.50.14.1162761025.squirrel@webmail.justnosweat.net>
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--IJ0V8rSZ2aNZISPM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 5 November 2006 at 21:10:25 -0000, justin wrote: > Hello, > > I`m trying to boot my freebsd 5.5 system and i`m having some trouble. > Every time the machine boots it runs into the mountroot prompt. > It cannot find the rootvp file on the /dev/ad0s1a. > Everytime i try to mount the /dev/ad0s1a it gives me the mountroot prompt > again. > also i tryed to type ufs:/dev/ad0s1a but nothing happens. > i presume the ad0s1a is my harddisk, i find it strange it will not mount. > The computer finds the hard drive at boot time so what`s the problem. The first problem is that you haven't given any details. What partition layout do you have? Have you ever been able to boot from this machine? What's in /etc/fstab? If this is a fresh install, I'd suggest moving to 6.1, or waiting a couple of days for 6.2. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --IJ0V8rSZ2aNZISPM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFTr1GIubykFB6QiMRAg+/AJ4vfL2rXllt/iSKbdFho+cU7TJKbACgpciV zk+wRhgbGPl5PR+p+aoNKZs= =4uQP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJ0V8rSZ2aNZISPM--
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