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From: Eric Blood <eblood@cs.unr.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why do I need my CD-ROM to boot?
Date: 20 Dec 1995 20:23:53 GMT
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Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> wrote:
>Anyway, I tried rebooting the machine WITHOUT the CD-ROM in it and I 
>could only boot up a single-user shell. The error message was something 
>like "can't locate file system" or something like that.

In your /etc/fstab, there is a line about the cdrom.  Whenever the system
boots, it mounts everything listed in the fstab.  The solution is to either
delete the line in the fstab, or place a CDROM with a filesystem on it.
If you do the former, then whenever you want to mount a CD you need to
type "mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom" and "umount /cdrom" when you are done.

-- 
Eric Blood
eblood@cs.unr.edu, http://www.cs.unr.edu/~eblood