From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 7 10:48:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E36216A4BF for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 10:48:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1AB843F85 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 10:48:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from macman20001@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h87HmUKx028710; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 10:48:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.96.3] (66-188-223-171.roc.mn.charter.com [66.188.223.171]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/8.12.9/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h87HmJwr007380; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 10:48:28 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: macman20001@mail.mac.com Message-Id: Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 12:47:42 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: MacMan20001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Bootable CD Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 17:48:31 -0000 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