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
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
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.
--
Michael Peirson
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