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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why do I need my CD-ROM to boot? Date: 20 Dec 1995 16:51:08 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4b9ets$4de@helena.MT.net> References: <4b7t8r$si3@gol2.gol.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <4b7t8r$si3@gol2.gol.com>, Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> wrote: >I have a question that I am embarrassed to ask after running FreeBSD >2.05 for about half a year now. .. >Anyway, I tried rebooting the machine WITHOUT the CD-ROM in it and I >could only boot up a single-user shell. .. This was fixed in 2.1 by adding an extra flag to the system so it doesn't try to mount the CD everytime, but in 2.0.5 you'll have to remove the cdrom line from /etc/fstab, so it doesn't try to mount the CD and fail. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth