Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:23:32 +0200 From: "SUPPORT" <support@bluetooth-shop.sk> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "MacMan20001" <macman20001@mac.com> Subject: Re: Bootable CD Problems Message-ID: <003d01c3756d$2835b7c0$3501a8c0@pro.sk> References: <p05111b04bb811ca1807f@[192.168.96.3]>
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Hello Dan, you are the fourth person except me, who has this problem and wrote it to the list. FreeBSD is still doing nothing with it - is it such big problem to solve it ? There is no useful advice yet, what can we do - nobody knows ? Peter Rosa ----- Original Message ----- From: "MacMan20001" <macman20001@mac.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 7:47 PM Subject: Bootable CD Problems > Hello. > > I'm trying to build a bootable BSD 4.8 CD. Nothing fancy, just a > shell and maybe a few utilities, but I have a specific problem. > > Whenever I boot from the CD, the computer asks for the root > filesystem. I point it toward the CD (cd9660:acd0), but it hangs on > "Mounting root from cd9660:acd0...". My guess is that it can't find > the mfsroot file. So, I tried all the possibilities: a zipped and > unzipped file, upper and lower case filename, upper and lower case > listing in /boot/loader.conf, and nothign worked. Does anyone know > the proper way the mfsroot file should be done, or another problem > that could be causing this? > > I have /sbin/init on the disk, and rc didn't load; I inserted 'echo > "rc loaded."' into the rc file, and didn't get any messages. > > Any help would be nice, and I wil answer what questions I can about this. > -- > Signed, > Dan Harrison > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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