From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 9:32:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DD3137B503 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:32:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 49781 invoked by uid 100); 10 Oct 2000 16:32:37 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14819.17573.571221.327987@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:32:37 -0500 (CDT) To: Nick Slager Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cdrom mounting In-Reply-To: <27520335@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nick Slager writes: > Thus spake Wyatt Banks (banksw@sunyit.edu): > > When I have my cdrom mount listed in fstab, my computer will not boot > > correctly without a cdrom in the drive. With a cdrom in the drive, it > > boots and I can access it fine. Does this sound correct? > > I thought I read something about a limitation being that the cd must be in > > the drive to mount it, or something similar, but can't find where I read > > it. I spent all day looking in 'The Complete FreeBSD' and reading man > > pages but can't find what I think I read. > You probably want to change the options in /etc/fstab. Something like > this: > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Nick is dead on. He didn't say why, though. FreeBSD won't boot multi-user if it can't mount all the file systems that it thinks it's supposed to. This is a good thing, because the system has no way of knowing what file systems are critical to proper system functioning, and what it would be just as happy without. Nick's change (adding noauto) tells the system not to automatically mount the drive at system startup, and hence not to fail if the drive can't be mounted.