From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Oct 5 19:42:11 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622E19B640C for ; Mon, 5 Oct 2015 19:42:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 337A71DB9 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 2015 19:42:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-213-32.knology.net [216.186.213.32] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t95Jg87l027724 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:42:09 -0500 Subject: Re: Install issues References: <5612938F.4080508@hiwaay.net> <20151005173644.d3b9c5ce.freebsd@edvax.de> <20151005160602.GA34349@neutralgood.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <5612D290.2040800@hiwaay.net> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:47:38 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151005160602.GA34349@neutralgood.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:42:11 -0000 On 10/05/15 11:12, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:36:44PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:18:49 -0453.75, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>> I am attempting to provision a new box w/ FreeBSD 9.3R, using a >>> customized USB drive w/ the default install media plus some scripts I >>> conjured up to expedite partitioning/slicing of HDD's. I plugged the USB >>> stick in & powered on. Though the UEFI BIOS gave my no options to >>> configure boot order, it did figure out that the USB stick was there & >>> bootable. I booted from that & the loading proceeded up to the regular >>> FreeBSD 'choose boot options' screen, w/ multi-user, single user, etc. >>> (6 choices total, w/ the ASCII-art logo). I let it go w/ option 1 (bad >>> choice :-) ? ) & it failed to get booted, but gave me a choice of boot >>> devices at the 'mountfs' (or some such) prompt. >> mountroot> :-) >> >> It's being presented by the kernel's root partition mounting >> mechanism (see sys/kern/vfs_mount.c). >> >> >> >>> I entered >>> 'ufs:/dev/da0s1a rw' & it proceeded to boot the installer. >> If I remember correctly, the boot process will mount root >> read-only, this is the default behaviour of single-user mode. >> That's why there is no "rw" option at this prompt; "rw" will >> therefore be ignored. Otherwise, the options from /etc/fstab >> would apply. > I thought mountroot (prompt? loader.conf option) took a list of > filesystems to attempt to mount. Spaces between the possible roots. > So 'rw' would be examined only if the first filesystem wasn't > mountable. > Actually there was some text describing what to do next which explicitly showed mounting a cdrom 'ro' & the syntax. I morphed the idea into mounting my USB stick 'rw', but it didn't take. Using the 'mount -uw /' worked AOK, & I now have more questions to follow :-/ .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.