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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!gol2!usenet From: Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Why do I need my CD-ROM to boot? Date: 20 Dec 1995 02:43:39 GMT Organization: Global OnLine Japan (+81-3-5330-9385) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4b7t8r$si3@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.243.53.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc I have a question that I am embarrassed to ask after running FreeBSD 2.05 for about half a year now. FreeBSD has been running flawlessly for about 6 months now, handling all my BBS' news and mail and JIS/Shift-JIS conversions. I was thinking of adding another FreeBSD machine and went looking for my CD-ROM and noticed that it had been inside my FreeBSD machine all this time! 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. Can somebody give me a clue as to what is going on and how I can boot my FreeBSD system without the CD-ROM mounted? Thanks, Doug