Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:43:44 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: Mike Peirson <mikepeirson@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup Message-ID: <20060921044344.GA97672@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <4511D307.1070906@gmail.com> References: <4511D307.1070906@gmail.com>
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* On 20/09/06 16:47 -0700, Mike Peirson wrote: | Hi all, | First off, I'm new to FreeBSD and this mailinglist so I hope I am in the | right place. Anyways, right now I am having some problems with FreeBSD | booting up. I have tried to install 3 times now and keep getting the | same error. When I try to boot into FreeBSD, this eventually comes up: | | Manual root filesystem specification: | <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem | <fstype> | eg. ufs:da0s1a | ? List valid disk boot devices | <empty line> abort manual input | Mountroot> | | This seems to be a prompt where I need to specify the location of the | root partition, but the problem here is that it hangs or freezes and I | cannot input any text. At first I thought it may be a result of FreeBSD | not properly recognizing my HDD's geometry but I manually fixed that and | it still is giving me this same issue. If anyone has had a similar | problem or knows how to fix this I would greatly appreciate any help. I | looked through the Handbook and googled this but I haven't found a | solution yet. Any further details about your hardware specs in general? -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
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