mountroot prompt

[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

[raulfg3]

Revise Bios, to check that boot device is first in the list.

[alexey123]

damon669 how many memory you have?
For embedded and live version you need mount from md0

[damon669]

Revise Bios, to check that boot device is first in the list.

yes usb drive is boot first

[damon669]

damon669 how many memory you have? 2 gig ddr2
For embedded and live version you need mount from md0 this gives error 19

[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

[damon669]

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

[alexey123]

1. viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2120 As suggested here

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

[damon669]

So I need to prepare my usb stick to ufs
If so, how so?

[damon669]

1. viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2120 As suggested here

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!

[damon669]

Installed the full version

reboots ok

I suppose I will have to give up on the embedded for now

[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.

[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?

[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)