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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:06:02 -0600
From:      Joseph Koenig <joe@jwebmedia.com>
To:        Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't boot system
Message-ID:  <3C8CB9CA.6EAD5300@jwebmedia.com>
References:  <3C89479D.CCF78FBE@jwebmedia.com> <3C8A897E.70209@cream.org>

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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.

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