Normal Booting on Dell PE3250

[Arun Sharma]

On 5/12/2004 5:28 AM, Muthu_T at Dell.com wrote:

>>>On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:10:18PM +0530, Muthu_T at Dell.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> Now FreeBSD boots, but no console output.
>>> Still I have to use the Serial Console?
> 
>>Yes.
> 
> I went to single user mode. Edited the '/etc/ttys' file in
> The /dev/ttyu1 with '/usr/libexec/getty std.115200 cons25 on secure'
> line.
> (ie modified the Baud rate and TERM type). Now I can login via Serial
> Console.
> 
> Thanks folks for your help.
> 
> The 2 issues I found here:
> 
> 1. pressing backspace 2 or 3 times in the mountroot> prompt drops me in
> the 
>    gdb> shell. 

I'm not sure why. Marcel, do you know ?

> 
> 2. after 'mountroot>ufs:da0p6' line, it mounts the / (root) filesystem
> in readonly

This is because the installer doesn't put a line for "/" in /etc/fstab. If you remount the root read/write:

mount -o rw /dev/da0p6 /
vi /etc/fstab

the problem should go away.

	-Arun