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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!in2.uu.net!news.greatbasin.net!usenet 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 20:25:31 GMT Organization: Great Basin Internet Services, Reno, NV Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4b9rfr$ro5@news.greatbasin.net> References: <4b7t8r$si3@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: winky.reno.nv.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) To: doug@gol.com X-URL: news:4b7t8r$si3@gol2.gol.com 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