From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 21 08:42:06 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 A6D4E16A47C for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:42:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-227-250.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3780243D45 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:42:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8L8ffSS075272; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:41:42 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060921033642.02186af8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:41:29 -0500 To: Mike Peirson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <45124DBC.6010906@gmail.com> References: <4511D307.1070906@gmail.com> <20060921044344.GA97672@ns2.wananchi.com> <20060921053101.GG88782@wantadilla.lemis.com> <45124DBC.6010906@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: 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 08:42:06 -0000 Some kvm's can be problematic, you may want to just plug a keyboard into the server for now. You can boot the CD and at a shell prompt run fdisk. You can give it the argument for the other drive to see that drive's partition table. -Derek At 03:30 AM 9/21/2006, Mike Peirson wrote: >Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>On Thursday, 21 September 2006 at 7:43:44 +0300, 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. >>>Any further details about your hardware specs in general? >>This is a keyboard problem. The background is that the boot process >>uses a different keyboard driver from the final kernel, and that it's >>much more finicky than the kernel version. It seems to have got worse >>in the last few years. I've found that a USB keyboard will do better, >>but YMMV. >> >>>>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. >>The background for the *message* (not the apparent freeze) is that >>your root file system can't be found. This happens typically when you >>change the device name. For example, my situation is that I'm doing >>development with a SATA disk drive and moving it from system to >>system. On my machine the root file system shows up as /dev/ad4s1a; >>on the other machine it's /dev/ad0s1a. >>It's probably worth putting in a PR about this problem. >>Greg >>-- >>See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > >About the keyboard.. I have it running through a KVM switch, would this >also cause any problems? I booted into safemode and noticed that the >problem with inputting text was nonexistant. I am not sure why it can't >find my root filesystem. I haven't changed the device name or moved >anything around at all. BTW, is there any way I can get into FreeBSD >(maybe via the install disc?) to get a detailed printout of my FreeBSD >slice? Posting that on here may be of some use. >-- >Michael Peirson >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.