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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
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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

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