From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 6 04:42:50 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 EFFCD16A47B for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 04:42:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD52F43D5A for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 04:42:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA6D1330C4; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:12:47 +1030 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 022799C2A1; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:12:47 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:12:46 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: justin Message-ID: <20061106044246.GL1052@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1598.192.168.50.14.1162761025.squirrel@webmail.justnosweat.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IJ0V8rSZ2aNZISPM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1598.192.168.50.14.1162761025.squirrel@webmail.justnosweat.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mountroot 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: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:42:51 -0000 --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--