Failed to Boot

[John Murphy]

"Sperry Russ" <sperry at newcreations.info> wrote:

>When I installed FreeBSD I set it not to modify my boot manager.
>Upon my first boot it booted to the point of a prompt with the words:
>mount root> and informed me that i needed to supply a file system and device.
>
>What do I need to do to make it boot to a normal command line?

Depends on the drive types and on where you installed FreeBSD-4.8.
If you only have one IDE HD and you installed to the 3rd. slice (partition):

0:ad(2,a)/kernel

will get you going.  Adjust the first number to the drive number,
replace ad with da for SCSI etc.

When it's up and running you should make sure that the devices listed in
/etc/fstab are similar to the location you entered above eg.

/dev/ad0s2a             /               ufs     rw              1       1

would be right for the location of the root file system described above.
You'll need to change the entries for the rest of the filesystem as well.

>I searched the faq and could find nothing about it in the Install manual either.

Another good place to search is the google FreeBSD mailing list archive:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&group=mailing.freebsd

John.