Hi there.
I have installed FreeBSD 8.2 amd 64 from DVD to a USB stick, which I cut into 3 "classical" slices /, /usr, /var. Since 4GB DDR is used on my system (Gigabyte D525TUD/Atom525) I refused to use swap.
The problem is - the system refuses to boot. I got the device listing on a screen with bright font (which means, as I read, the pre-booting process, before the kernel is loaded) and then system halts after lone:
I press Enter and
Next, system waits fo 15 seconds and goes rebooting.
This time when FreeBSD logo shows, I chose (6) - shell - and receive "OK" invitation. I enter "boot -as" (don't know the meaning, read on this forum when searching to solve my problem) and device listing is shown again. It freezes at the same exact line
but this time when I press ENTER next line I see says:
I press Enter, see invitation # and enter "exit"
And system boots OK!
As I've read on this forum and in the handbook the problem may lay in BIOS drive numbering, but it doesn't seem to be my case, as BIOS shows my usb stick as DRIVE0 with the slices and two sata drives as disk1 and disk2.
I tried to change /boot/defaults/loader.conf but the only way to make it work is to set such variables as
and
If I change disk number the system refuses to load at all. I guess I don't have the disk numbering error and can't get help from other threads titled "root mount error".
Thanks in advance for your help
I have installed FreeBSD 8.2 amd 64 from DVD to a USB stick, which I cut into 3 "classical" slices /, /usr, /var. Since 4GB DDR is used on my system (Gigabyte D525TUD/Atom525) I refused to use swap.
The problem is - the system refuses to boot. I got the device listing on a screen with bright font (which means, as I read, the pre-booting process, before the kernel is loaded) and then system halts after lone:
Code:
da0: 3864MB etc
I press Enter and
Code:
panic Root mount failed, startup aborted
Cannot dump. Device not defined or unavailable
Next, system waits fo 15 seconds and goes rebooting.
This time when FreeBSD logo shows, I chose (6) - shell - and receive "OK" invitation. I enter "boot -as" (don't know the meaning, read on this forum when searching to solve my problem) and device listing is shown again. It freezes at the same exact line
Code:
da0: 3864MB ...
Code:
Tryin to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
Enter fuul pathname of shell or ENTER for /bin/sh:
I press Enter, see invitation # and enter "exit"
And system boots OK!
As I've read on this forum and in the handbook the problem may lay in BIOS drive numbering, but it doesn't seem to be my case, as BIOS shows my usb stick as DRIVE0 with the slices and two sata drives as disk1 and disk2.
I tried to change /boot/defaults/loader.conf but the only way to make it work is to set such variables as
Code:
rootdev="disk0s1a"
Code:
currdev="disk0sa1"
If I change disk number the system refuses to load at all. I guess I don't have the disk numbering error and can't get help from other threads titled "root mount error".
Thanks in advance for your help