Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 14:39:58 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Nicholas Blasgen <nicholas@blasgen.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Issue Message-ID: <200406081439.58525.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040607201853.EB41CCDD@windmill.garlic.com> References: <20040607201853.EB41CCDD@windmill.garlic.com>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 05:48, Nicholas Blasgen wrote: > Okay, good. FreeBSD starts to boot. Loads the kernel fine, seems to do > everything fine, but comes to some issues where I need to specify the main > disk. So I tell it ufs:ad0s4a. Machine boots up in single user mode, I > mount all the extra drives it didn't load. Everything seems fine as far = as > I can tell but the boot wasn't multiuser because of some bad configuratio= n. > So I decided to issues the boot0cfg command again and reboot. > > -- THE REAL QUESTION -- > > Now I'm back with the FreeBSD block being unbootable. So I know nothing > about how /boot/ configurations work. Could someone tell me how to edit > files or an application to do so for the files in /boot/ so I can tell > boo0cfg that I want FreeBSD (/dev/ad0s4) to be a bootable partition? I > think that'd solve everything. Try boot0cfg -Bv -o packet ad0 As to why it can't find root.. That depends on your fstab matching what is= =20 actually on the disk. =2D --=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAxUom5ZPcIHs/zowRAqRmAJ0Vj8gd8XFRvA3OUi2gosg2m6DKZQCdFtsI TvFxbmZVgWqFHzJ7/x5m7Pw=3D =3DNH6B =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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