From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 3:22: 6 2002 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 D878B37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 03:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from turing.cs.hmc.edu (turing.cs.hmc.edu [134.173.42.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AC2843E3B for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 03:22:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from namba@cs.hmc.edu) Received: from localhost (namba@localhost) by turing.cs.hmc.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA01185 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 03:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 03:22:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Aaron K. Namba" X-X-Sender: namba@turing To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Root mount failed: 5 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying very hard to implement the suggestion shown at http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/March/Features646.html (building a cd bootable firewall) but despite my best efforts, I can't get the system to finish booting. The kernel loads up fine but then I get Root mount failed: 5. Once I got a 22, but I can't reproduce that. Mostly I am just looking for an explanation of the various codes, since I have had problems with other systems and other "Root mount failed" codes. I have used FreeBSD a lot for about the past 12-14 months so most tasks like building kernels, building releases and such are familiar to me. I have created my own custom install CD's and such. But I am stumped here. I have googled myself to death already and even picked through some of the kernel sources looking for answers. If someone could direct me to a resource that explains the codes or the boot process in general, or even tell me exactly what's wrong, I'd be very grateful. Let me know what information would be helpful. I'm using release 4.6.2 for the system on the cd. I realized recently that the custom kernel I'm building is from 4-STABLE, but I don't think that should be an issue here. --Aaron Namba To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message