From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 5:52:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from email.accessus.net (email.accessus.net [209.145.128.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404E037B427 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:52:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [209.145.133.59] (account jkoenig@accessus.net HELO jwebmedia.com) by email.accessus.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.6) with ESMTP id 50977493 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:52:27 -0600 Message-ID: <3C8E0B01.27C5B27B@jwebmedia.com> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:04:50 -0600 From: Joseph Koenig Reply-To: joe@jwebmedia.com Organization: jWeb New Media Design X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot system References: <3C89479D.CCF78FBE@jwebmedia.com> <3C8A897E.70209@cream.org> <3C8CB9CA.6EAD5300@jwebmedia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Anyone have any ideas on this? I am still unable to figure this out. Thanks, Joe Joseph Koenig wrote: > > Reading through what i wrote, saying the 'two slices' is probably a bit > confusing - It's just a mirrored setup, so I've really only got 1 18G > drive to work with. What I mean was that on boot, the system sees the > two drives and says they're a raid 1. No errors are displayed at boot > other than it prompting me for a mount point. I'm totally baffled as > there is nothing else to help me figure this out. I thought it might be > a boot manager issue, so I tried installing with the three different > options for boot managers. All that being said, the '/' slice is just on > the 18GB mirrored drive. I was hoping maybe someone had experience with > a Dell 1500SC, or something very similar. Thanks, > > Joe > > Andrew Boothman wrote: > > > > Joseph Koenig wrote: > > > > >I have a new Dell 1500ST. CHARLES with an 18GB RAID 1 - 1.13 GHz, 512MB > > >RAM. The installation goes fine, but when I try and boot I get: > > > > > >Manual root filesystem specification: > > > > > >mountroot> > > > > > >I can see that the two slices are being detected just fine, the Raid > > >card is being detected. This is 4.5-RELEASE. Ideas anyone? > > > > > I think we probably need some more information about what is going on. > > What other messages are displayed when you try and boot? Any errors? > > Where did you put your / slice? > > > > >On a side > > >note, what does the RELEASE tag mean? I know the difference between > > >STABLE and CURRENT, but where does RELEASE fall? All I can find is into > > >on STABLE and CURRENT. > > > > > A RELEASE is just a partiular point along the -STABLE line. Perodically, > > the Release Engineering folks put -stable into a code freeze where only > > fixes to existing functionality are allowed and after a few weeks a new > > release is tagged, compiled and then made available on CD-ROM and from > > all the FTP mirrors. > > > > Andrew. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message