Hello,
I am a seasoned UNIX user but have been using freebsd for only about 6
months. I have posted this problem to freebsd-questions with no response
so, figuring it must be a bug in the install program i'm going to try
here. Oh, I would like to have traced the code to try to find the bug (if
one exists) but being a senior year undergrad with a full course load and
thesis, I have been left with little time... please forgive me.
My problem is this. I am trying to install 3.3-R on an IBM Thinkpad 365XD
(although I have received mail from a man in France who is having the same
problem on a desktop). The installation runs completely smoothly but when
I finish and reboot the machine reports no resident O.S.
After trying many different things (including messing with the MBR, double
and triple checking disk geometry, and using a Fixit disk to try to
diagnose the problem), I booted from the install floppy to the main
install menu. Rather than re-install all over again for the nth time I
just entered the label editor. The partitions were still there but the
mount points were lost. What appeared was
this:
<none> 40M // supposed to be root
swap 84M // swap is obviously OK
<none> 651M // supposed to be /usr
This is clearly not what I designated so I tried relabelling the mount
points, writing the information using 'w' and exiting install only to have
the BIOS report no O.S. yet again!
The machine is a P100,40M ram,810HD, standard PCI (as far as I have been
able to tell/test). Has anyone encountered this or know the problem?
Thanks a TON!
Marwan :-)
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