My laptop has a bootable NIC but I would like to avoid a network
installation.
I think that I forget to make the installkernel step.
I can say that I'm using kernel 6.0 thanks to the output at the start of
boot process.
I have another old box with a FreeBSD 6.0 kernel so I'll try tonight to get
th
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 14:50:05 Popof Popof wrote:
> I can't install FreeBSD 7 from scratch because this is a laptop and the CD
> drive is dead.
Is it possible you installed the base system (make installworld), without
having installed the kernel (make installkernel)?
If that's the case, w
On Behalf Of Popof Popof
> I can't install FreeBSD 7 from scratch because this is a
> laptop and the CD drive is dead.
> Also as this is a laptop I don't have any floopy drive.
Any chance you have a docking station for that laptop with a NIC that
supports PXE? Could you do a network boot and inst
ocal, read-only)
>
> At least the device names seem to be the same.
>
> This might be something silly and minor. You can boot from CD (or
> floppy, flash drive, etc.) to edit the file, and try to edit the
> file. Remember that you need a newline at the end of the fstab file,
>
and strange characters can confuse it.
>
> 2008/11/4 mdh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> --- On Tue, 11/4/08, Popof Popof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > From: Popof Popof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Subject: Unable to mount / in read - write mode
>> > T
; --- On Tue, 11/4/08, Popof Popof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From: Popof Popof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Unable to mount / in read - write mode
> > To: "FreeBSD Questions"
> > Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 1:57 PM
> > Hi,
> > I
Hi,
I recently tried to update my FreeBSD 6.0 to FreeBSD 7.0.
I don't know where but I made a mistake and I am always booting on the 6.0
kernel.
The problem is that I have an error during boot process:
mount option is unknown
> mount: /dev/ad0s2a : Invalid argument
> Mounting root filesystem rw f
--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Popof Popof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Popof Popof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Unable to mount / in read - write mode
> To: "FreeBSD Questions"
> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 1:57 PM
> Hi,
> I recently tried to update
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Popof Popof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know where but I made a mistake and I am always booting on the 6.0
> kernel.
Are you using the GENERIC kernel or a custom one?
--
Roey
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