On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:54 PM, David Burgess <apt....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to pfsense and a real novice with FreeBSD, so go easy on me ;) > > I used the live CD of pfsense 1.2.3-RC1 to install to a hard drive for > use in a soekris net5501. When I boot while attached to the serial > console it appears that it can't find the root filesystem, and I'm > left with something like this (reconstructed from dmesg): > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad10s1a > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad10s1a > > > 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> ufs:ad1s1a > Trying to mount root from ufs:ad1s1a > > So after entering the correct device it continues to boot properly. I > guess the device has changed names between install in one machine and > boot in another. After some searching I see that the time to edit > /etc/fstab would have been during the install, but that's water under > the bridge. > > I tried editing /etc/fstab at the console with vi but it's telling me > it's a read-only file. I don't want to mess things up too badly, so > I'm wondering where to go from here. Is there a quick fix for this or > am I better off reinstalling and making the change from the installer? >
Just edit it with vi and exit with :x! to override the ro. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
