Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-11-10 Thread drseuk
Hi, This has just occurred to one of our servers that installed and has been working fine for months. The only thing that changed between it booting and not booting was that we unplugged the keyboard and mouse prior to the last successful boot and now get the mountroot message (even though the

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-09-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[rearranged, trimmed] On Thursday, 21 September 2006 at 2:32:59 -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: > At 06:47 PM 9/20/2006, Mike Peirson wrote: >> Hi all, >> First off, I'm new to FreeBSD and this mailinglist so I hope I am in the >> right place. Anyways, right now I am having some problems with FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-09-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mike Peirson wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 21 September 2006 at 7:43:44 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: * On 20/09/06 16:47 -0700, Mike Peirson wrote: Hi all, First off, I'm new to FreeBSD and this mailinglist so I hope I am in the right place. Anyways, right now I a

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-09-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 09:01:58AM -0700, Mike Peirson wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:47:19PM -0700, Mike Peirson wrote: > > > >>Hi all, > >>First off, I'm new to FreeBSD and this mailinglist so I hope I am in the > >>same error. When I try to boot into FreeBSD, th

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-09-21 Thread Mike Peirson
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:47:19PM -0700, Mike Peirson wrote: Hi all, First off, I'm new to FreeBSD and this mailinglist so I hope I am in the right place. Anyways, right now I am having some problems with FreeBSD booting up. I have tried to install 3 times now and kee

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-09-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:47:19PM -0700, Mike Peirson wrote: > Hi all, > First off, I'm new to FreeBSD and this mailinglist so I hope I am in the > right place. Anyways, right now I am having some problems with FreeBSD > booting up. I have tried to install 3 times now and keep getting the > sa

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-09-21 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hi, On 9/21/06, Mike Peirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, First off, I'm new to FreeBSD and this mailinglist so I hope I am in the right place. Anyways, right now I am having some problems with FreeBSD booting up. I have tried to install 3 times now and keep getting the same error. When I

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-09-21 Thread Derek Ragona
Some kvm's can be problematic, you may want to just plug a keyboard into the server for now. You can boot the CD and at a shell prompt run fdisk. You can give it the argument for the other drive to see that drive's partition table. -Derek At 03:30 AM 9/21/2006, Mike Peirson wrote:

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-09-21 Thread Mike Peirson
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 21 September 2006 at 7:43:44 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: * On 20/09/06 16:47 -0700, Mike Peirson wrote: Hi all, First off, I'm new to FreeBSD and this mailinglist so I hope I am in the right place. Anyways, right now I am having some problems with

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-09-21 Thread Mike Peirson
Odhiambo Washington wrote: * On 20/09/06 16:47 -0700, Mike Peirson wrote: | Hi all, | First off, I'm new to FreeBSD and this mailinglist so I hope I am in the | right place. Anyways, right now I am having some problems with FreeBSD | booting up. I have tried to install 3 times now and keep gett

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-09-21 Thread Derek Ragona
I have seen this in a few situations: 1.) the BIOS is set to not allow boot area writes 2.) The root partition is outside the first 1024 cylinders. This was on older hardware that didn't do good geometry translation on big drives. 3.) moved the root partition to another slice -Derek A

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-09-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 21 September 2006 at 7:43:44 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * On 20/09/06 16:47 -0700, Mike Peirson wrote: >> Hi all, >> First off, I'm new to FreeBSD and this mailinglist so I hope I am in the >> right place. Anyways, right now I am having some problems with FreeBSD >> booting u

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-09-20 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* On 20/09/06 16:47 -0700, Mike Peirson wrote: | Hi all, | First off, I'm new to FreeBSD and this mailinglist so I hope I am in the | right place. Anyways, right now I am having some problems with FreeBSD | booting up. I have tried to install 3 times now and keep getting the | same error. When I

FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

2006-09-20 Thread Mike Peirson
Hi all, First off, I'm new to FreeBSD and this mailinglist so I hope I am in the right place. Anyways, right now I am having some problems with FreeBSD booting up. I have tried to install 3 times now and keep getting the same error. When I try to boot into FreeBSD, this eventually comes up: