From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 08:06:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 4E15316A403 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:06:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikepeirson@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA89A43D64 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:06:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikepeirson@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so289739nzn for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:06:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=M81nDOpolwA40p/DZODuHUzrlnVxaMGNax100118I+g62xBpSWtBNZbWLhdqsNiXNBiaYBMdP467JZFmgLckvmQ2pm06S+4AsC/78RUqxO5gqajsVHzW5Hl9UBa40SEJoViFVyocoAs81Vvvm/RREy9nk51jNjdR4gI/O+CQQYA= Received: by 10.64.148.8 with SMTP id v8mr20808323qbd; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:06:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.3? ( [72.25.94.94]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id e14sm1833520qbe.2006.09.21.01.06.14; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4512485B.6080302@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:07:55 -0700 From: Mike Peirson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4511D307.1070906@gmail.com> <20060921044344.GA97672@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20060921044344.GA97672@ns2.wananchi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:06:17 -0000 Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * 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: > | : Mount using filesystem > | > | eg. ufs:da0s1a > | ? List valid disk boot devices > | 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 > 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. > Nothing out of the ordinary.. I've got a Abit VT7 socket 478 mother board with an Intel P4. Standard Western Digital 120GB HDD. I've got video and keyboard/mouse running through a KVM switch, so after reading what Greg posted.. I can see why I would be having issues with inputing any text at the mountroot> prompt. -- Michael Peirson