FreeBSD 6.1 hangs at mountroot> during bootup

[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 getting the 
> | same error. When I try to boot into FreeBSD, this eventually comes up:
> | 
> |         Manual root filesystem specification:
> |                   <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem 
> | <fstype>
> |                                        eg. ufs:da0s1a
> |                   ?                 List valid disk boot devices
> |                   <empty line>      abort manual input
> |                 Mountroot>
> | 
> | This seems to be a prompt where I need to specify the location of the 
> | root partition, but the problem here is that it hangs or freezes and I 
> | cannot input any text. At first I thought it may be a result of FreeBSD 
> | not properly recognizing my HDD's geometry but I manually fixed that and 
> | it still is giving me this same issue. If anyone has had a similar 
> | problem or knows how to fix this I would greatly appreciate any help. I 
> | looked through the Handbook and googled this but I haven't found a 
> | solution yet.
> 
> Any further details about your hardware specs in general?
> 
> 
> -Wash
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Nothing out of the ordinary.. I've got a Abit VT7 socket 478 mother 
board with an Intel P4. Standard Western Digital 120GB HDD. I've got 
video and keyboard/mouse running through a KVM switch, so after reading 
what Greg posted.. I can see why I would be having issues with inputing 
any text at the mountroot> prompt.

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Michael Peirson