Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:47:38 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Install issues Message-ID: <5612D290.2040800@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20151005160602.GA34349@neutralgood.org> References: <5612938F.4080508@hiwaay.net> <20151005173644.d3b9c5ce.freebsd@edvax.de> <20151005160602.GA34349@neutralgood.org>
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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
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