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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why do I need my CD-ROM to boot? Date: 23 Dec 1995 14:36:19 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4bh453$naq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4b7t8r$si3@gol2.gol.com> <4b9ets$4de@helena.mt.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) writes: > >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. You can also tweak /etc/rc to split out the CDROM mount off the UFS mounts, and then avoid the check for the mount succeeding. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)