From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 22 00:27:25 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 CF96F16A403 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:27:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A9743D46 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:27:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9845B9BE7E; Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:57:23 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:57:23 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Derek Ragona Message-ID: <20060922002723.GJ88782@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4511D307.1070906@gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20060921023026.021010a8@mail.computinginnovations.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GlnCQLZWzqLRJED8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20060921023026.021010a8@mail.computinginnovations.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: Mike Peirson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:27:25 -0000 --GlnCQLZWzqLRJED8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [rearranged, trimmed] On Thursday, 21 September 2006 at 2:32:59 -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: > At 06:47 PM 9/20/2006, 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. > > I have seen this in a few situations: > 1.) the BIOS is set to not allow boot area writes > 2.) The root partition is outside the first 1024 cylinders. This was on > older hardware that didn't do good geometry translation on big drives. > 3.) moved the root partition to another slice I don't think any of these can cause the keyboard to freeze. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --GlnCQLZWzqLRJED8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFEy3rIubykFB6QiMRAtU1AJ0eihd5qM10BTYvcaGcZ5Ny5bfyBwCeNjO8 nj4npaIMPQu5fhYoR9k4jyQ= =74ET -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GlnCQLZWzqLRJED8--