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From: Noel Nuguid<businessgeeks@pinoy-compuworld.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: mountroot> prompt during first boot for installation
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>Number:         113160
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       [install] mountroot> prompt during first boot for installation
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 30 14:30:09 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:    Tue Mar 04 06:49:30 UTC 2008
>Last-Modified:  Tue Mar 04 06:49:30 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Noel Nuguid
>Release:        Freebsd 6.2
>Organization:
Pinoy Compuworld
>Environment:
Can even reach that part
>Description:
I want to install Freebsd 6.2 on one of my old boxes (an old Celeron
1.2 Ghz). however when I try to boot up from the Installer CD to install
the software. I ended up to this prompt:

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>

tried doing the suggestions from this thread:

http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?p=260183
>How-To-Repeat:
Just boot from a freebsd 6.2 boot disc and try to install it
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-i386 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed May 30 14:41:21 UTC 2007 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
This could be specific to this hardware. 

To submitter: you'll need to give us much more information, such as the 
hardware configuration, how your ata drives are connected, and so forth. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=113160 

From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Noel Nuguid <businessgeeks@pinoy-compuworld.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/113160: mountroot> prompt during first boot for installation
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:37:51 -0400

 On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:26:51PM +0000, Noel Nuguid wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         113160
 > >Category:       misc
 > >Synopsis:       mountroot> prompt during first boot for installation
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Wed May 30 14:30:09 GMT 2007
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Noel Nuguid
 > >Release:        Freebsd 6.2
 > >Organization:
 > Pinoy Compuworld
 > >Environment:
 > Can even reach that part
 > >Description:
 > I want to install Freebsd 6.2 on one of my old boxes (an old Celeron 1.2 Ghz). however when I try to boot up from the Installer CD to install the software. I ended up to this prompt:
 > 
 > 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>
 > 
 > tried doing the suggestions from this thread:
 > 
 > http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?p=260183
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Just boot from a freebsd 6.2 boot disc and try to install it
 
 I guess it means your CDROM is not detected by FreeBSD.
 
 Kris

From: "Glenn Trewitt" <glenn@trewitt.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, businessgeeks@pinoy-compuworld.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/113160: [install] mountroot&gt; prompt during first boot for installation
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:13:43 -0700

 I'm having the same problem on an old-ish VIA system.  FreeBSD does
 find both the hard drive (ad0) and CDROM (acd0).  These are master and
 slave, respectively, on the primary IDE bus.
 
 When I provide "cd9660:acd0" for the root device, it continues to
 boot, but is (unhappily) booting to multiuser with the R/O filesystem.
  The real problem is that sysinstall isn't automatically started.
 When I run it by hand it seems to work, but the environment is too
 strange for it.  For example, sysinstall can fdisk the hard drive, but
 gets sick when it tries to newfs the partitions - it apparently tries
 to mount them as part of the process and can't create the desired
 mount points in the R/O root.
 
 I used the same CD to boot another system into sysinstall - everything
 worked as expected.

From: Kees van Gemert <kees@toenou.net>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,  businessgeeks@pinoy-compuworld.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/113160: [install] mountroot&gt; prompt during first boot
 for installation
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:40:26 +0100

 LS,
 
 Having the same problem on an via system (via VIA VT133 + 686B with 
 onboard Via C3 cpu)
 
 FreeBSD 6.2 -> failed
 FreeBSD 6.3 Beta -> failed
 FreeBSD 7.0 Beta2 -> failed
 PCBSD 1.4 -> failed
 FreeBSD 5.5 -> succes
 
 Tried diferent memory configurations, changed cd-rom with FreeBSD 6.2, 
 no change.
 
 Since also 6.3 and 7.0 fail, i'm wondering if this issue is still under 
 investigation or is it a dead issue?
 
 Thanx,
 
 Kees.
 

From: Peter Mulholland <darkmatter@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/113160: [install] mountroot&gt; prompt during first boot for installation
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:46:50 +0000

 Hello bug-followup,
 
 For my system I found a solution
 
 The problem was being caused by the "Memory Hole At 15-16M" option in
 the BIOS. This seems to stop md from loading.
 
 Disabling it fixed the problem and the CD boots normally :)
 
 -- 
 Best regards,
  Peter                          mailto:darkmatter@blueyonder.co.uk
 

From: Peter Mulholland <darkmatter@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/113160: [install] mountroot&gt; prompt during first boot for installation
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:29:07 +0000

 Hello bug-followup,
 
 I get this as well using both FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE and FreeBSD
 7.0-RELEASE on an old Pentium 3 Intel i440BX based system with 128MB.
 
 The hardware is fine other than the BIOS not correctly handling large
 disks - to this end I have installed a Promise PDC20268 based card to
 handle the disk.
 
 Both CD images are verified correct - they function OK in another
 system I have tested them in, an Apple iMac.
 
 From=20the look of it, the md0 device is never being created, which of
 course leads the boot process to fail as that's where the root FS will
 be. There is no error message given though - just the absence of the
 creation of md0.
 
 Disconnecting the disk thats on the Promise controller makes no
 difference. I haven't tried removing the Promise controller but I
 don't see why that would be causing a problem anyway.
 
 Any ideas?
 
 --=20
 Best regards,
  Peter                          mailto:darkmatter@blueyonder.co.uk
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Tue Mar 4 06:49:28 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
Peter reports that this issue had been resolved by disabling the "Memory 
Hole at 15-16M" option in the bios. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=113160 
>Unformatted:
