Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:42:33 -0600 From: Scott <info@sonservers.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Install 5.3 - Getting mountroot> prompt Message-ID: <2005211204233.443160@IBM-R40>
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I will really appreciate it of someone can help me out. I am installing 5.3 on a dual p3 server. I have two 160 gig Seagate IDE drives on the first IDE connector, and a CD rom on the 2nd IDE connector. I have reinstalled several times with different drive configurations and keep getting stuck at the same place. At boot, the normal countdown loader comes up and it begins to boot. The boot message gets to this drive section below and then stops at a "mountroot>" prompt. Begin copy ....... ad0: 152627MB <ST3160023A/8.01> [310101/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 ad1: 152627MB <ST3160023A/8.01> [310101/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 acd0: <CDU5211/YYS2> at ata1-master PIO4 Manual root filesystem specification: <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> eg. usf:da0s1a ? List valid desk boot devices <empty line> Abort manual input mountroot> ............ End copy If I type: ufs:ad0s1a at that "mountroot>" prompt, it will boot normally and as far as I can tell, all is working like I would expect. I suspected this may have something to do with my fstab but it looks normal to me: /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad1s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad1s1d /backup ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1d /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Please let me know if I can provide more information that will help you help me know what to do to get it to automatically go on to boot ad0s1a. Thanks much, Scott
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