Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:43:08 +0300 (EEST) From: "Al. Andreou" <ee4299@ee.teiath.gr> To: Maxim Mazurok <maxim@km.ua> Cc: <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: booting on Ultra AX fail Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210152039330.22331-100000@artemis.ee.teiath.gr> In-Reply-To: <20021015200151.L304@km.ua>
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Maxim Mazurok wrote: > Manual root filesystem specification: > <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> > eg. ufs:da0a > ? List valid disk boot devices > <empty line> Abort manual input > > mountroot> > panic: Root mount failed, startup aborted. > > Where is my mistake? In the mountroot> prompt you are supposed to provide the kernel with a partition to consider as its root partition. You should use the partition on the CDROM as your root (on an Ultra 5 today it worked it out by itself). You should enter: mountroot> cd9660:acd0a It should proceed normally from there on. Irrelevant note: today I discovered and installed the sparc port :-) . I have kept what I consider a helpfull extension of INSTALL.txt in http://nemesis.ee.teiath.gr/~ee4299/files/freebsd/installation-steps.txt In the same directory lies a copy of the bzipped ISO image for anyone interested :-) . -- "to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. . . it is better to marry than to burn" -- Paul, I Corinthians vii. 2, 9. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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