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mountroot prompt
Posted: 28 Mar 2013 10:40
by damon669
No matter what install I try to do, embedded, full, live cd live usb, img files on usb, different media, disk and drives, different sticks sandisk and kingston usb3 usb2! I am getting this same message, after about 1 minute of booting up
mountroot>
I tried ufs:/dev/da0
with no luck
Re: mountroot prompt
Posted: 28 Mar 2013 18:31
by raulfg3
Revise Bios, to check that boot device is first in the list.
Re: mountroot prompt
Posted: 28 Mar 2013 21:31
by alexey123
damon669 how many memory you have?
For embedded and live version you need mount from md0
Re: mountroot prompt
Posted: 29 Mar 2013 06:32
by damon669
raulfg3 wrote:Revise Bios, to check that boot device is first in the list.
yes usb drive is boot first
Re: mountroot prompt
Posted: 29 Mar 2013 06:35
by damon669
alexey123 wrote:damon669 how many memory you have? 2 gig ddr2
For embedded and live version you need mount from md0 this gives error 19
Re: mountroot prompt
Posted: 29 Mar 2013 10:40
by alexey123
damon669
Pls send:
1. Your method for prepare usb- flash for NAS4Free image. Also you say about full version - how you have it without install?
2. Your motherboard spec.
3. Try to boot with ACPI disable. If success - you have conflict on PCI bus
Re: mountroot prompt
Posted: 31 Mar 2013 03:22
by damon669
alexey123 wrote:damon669
Pls send:
1. Your method for prepare usb- flash for NAS4Free image. Also you say about full version - how you have it without install?
2. Your motherboard spec.
3. Try to boot with ACPI disable. If success - you have conflict on PCI bus
1.
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2120 As suggested here
2. ECS GEFORCE6100PM-M2
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Produc ... &MenuID=20
3. Changed ACPI Suspend type in bios from S3(STR) to S1 (POS) , only has these 2 settings
IT Booted up!!, but tried to do a reboot, and have gone back to mountroot> again!!
I have also disconnedted the Harddrives, so can take them out of the equation
Re: mountroot prompt
Posted: 31 Mar 2013 13:32
by alexey123
In this topic wrote howto recover flash from freebsd to windows-like fat32. You need UFS, not fat32.
For prepare usb drive you need download embedded image for your arch, and write downloaded image to flash with physdiskwrite
http://m0n0.ch/wall/physdiskwrite.php
You can use another way, but in this case you need 2 usb pens.
Download live usb image
Download and install imagewriter
https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer
Burn liveusb image to first flash.
Boot from it and after it will boot connect 2-nd usb flash.
Install embedded+data to second flash, not use swap!
Use it
Re: mountroot prompt
Posted: 31 Mar 2013 14:50
by damon669
So I need to prepare my usb stick to ufs
If so, how so?
Re: mountroot prompt
Posted: 01 Apr 2013 08:44
by damon669
alexey123 wrote:
In this topic wrote howto recover flash from freebsd to windows-like fat32. You need UFS, not fat32.
For prepare usb drive you need download embedded image for your arch, and write downloaded image to flash with physdiskwrite
http://m0n0.ch/wall/physdiskwrite.php
You can use another way, but in this case you need 2 usb pens.
Download live usb image
Download and install imagewriter
https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer
Burn liveusb image to first flash.
Boot from it and after it will boot connect 2-nd usb flash.
Install embedded+data to second flash, not use swap!
Use it
Followed your advise
with 2 usb pens
Installed to 2nd usb, rebooted, and still got the mountroot> prompt!
Re: mountroot prompt
Posted: 01 Apr 2013 09:08
by damon669
Installed the full version
reboots ok
I suppose I will have to give up on the embedded for now
Re: mountroot prompt
Posted: 01 Apr 2013 09:32
by raulfg3
if full works for you, use it for a time, save your config, and do a new full install and restore config if do you have boot problems in future.
Re: mountroot prompt
Posted: 01 Apr 2013 10:06
by damon669
I was trying embedded, because apparently it is easy to upgrade. So with the full install, as long as you save your config file, why is it difficult to upgrade?
Re: mountroot prompt
Posted: 01 Apr 2013 11:01
by raulfg3
no difficult, you only need to download new version, boot from it, and use option to upgrade in menu. (have more stept that only push a button, but no difficult as you see)