booting problem

[manny1234]

my installation of freebsd froze. I did not have a monitor or a keyboard hooked up to the server in question so being the lazy putz that I am I just powercycled the box.

Now when I boot it goes to the screen where you can pick to boot normally, single user, safe, etc. When you make a selection it hangs for a minute or two before it does anything and then it brings me to a prompt

mountroot>

I type in

ufs:partion to mount

and it says

Warning /partion was not properly dismounted
init: not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/oinit:/sbin/init.bak:/stand/sysinstall
panic: no init
Uptime: time

Then it hangs there until I power cycle...help!

 

[manny1234]

ok i found out with partition is root and tried to mount it with the following error

ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=2563935
Root mount failed: 5

 

[tchatzi]

well i suggest next time you do the installation do it right and use a monitor and a keyboard to be able to create the partitions and the boot sectors correctly


``The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.''
TIMTOWTDI

 

[manny1234]

wow! thanks for the advice that solves my problem! your so smart...

 

[tchatzi]

I'm not kidding you manny, you have to do the installation again. It would be much easier than to try to make it work as it is.



``The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.''
TIMTOWTDI