Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 22:15:26 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: joe@jwebmedia.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot system Message-ID: <3C8A897E.70209@cream.org> References: <3C89479D.CCF78FBE@jwebmedia.com>
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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
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