At 02:40 PM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote:
Glenn Dawson wrote:
At 02:13 PM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote:
Glenn Dawson wrote:
At 06:04 AM 8/27/2005, Sean wrote:
Just installed on a new system and I am unable to boot.
Currently when that system boots it comes up with what looks
like the following example from the handbook
>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel
boot:
from my reading this is a boot2 stage
booting from cd and going into Fixit it fdisk shows partition 1,
2, and 3 unused, and Freebsd is on partition 4.
I thought it should be on partition 1?
How did you arrange the file systems when you installed. Did you
use the defaults, or your own layout?
The defaults would have given you 5 partitions inside of the
first slice. For example:
ad0s1a - /
ad0s1b - swap
ad0s1d - /var
ad0s1e - /tmp
ad0s1f - /usr
Did you not use the 'a' partition for your root file
system? Second stage boot code only knows how to find third
stage on the 'a' partition.
More details on your installation would help in trying to figure
out what the problem is.
-Glenn
Note: on install I choose the Standard boot manager.
I created the above partitions you listed manually and specified
to my choice sizes, and i did choose 'a', or entire disk on creation.
The "entire disk" option is in the screen that lest you create
slices, which is completely different from the screen that lets you
create your partitions. (a, b, d, e, f, etc)
Keep in mind that what is called a "partition" in other OS's is
called a slice in FreeBSD.
You mentioned above that FreeBSD was installed in partition
4. Assuming that's slice 4, are the device names something like
/dev/ads4x. where the x is the partition.
Through Fitit,
fdisk shows partions 1,2,and 3 unused, and Freebsd sitting in 4.
Can you send the output that shows that?
bsdlabel shows on /dev/ad0s1 the six partitions, a, b, c, d, e, f
/dev/ad0s1 is slice one. (partition 1 in the dos/windows world)
Sysinstall, from the boot cd, shows the following
disk name: ad0 and freebsd on ad0s1
That is exactly as it should be.
disklabel shows
ad0s1a, ad0s1d, ad0s1b, ad0s1e, ad0s1f, none of these partitions
currently show a mount point, with the exception of b, which is swap.
so now am even more puzzled by no mount showing.
disklabel output can't give you mount points. Can you provide the
output from disklabel? That would help in figuring out what's going on.
Here's a sample output from one of my systems:
# /dev/ad0s1:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 524288 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0
b: 2045600 524288 swap
c: 20964762 0 unused 0 0 # "raw"
part, don't edit
d: 524288 2569888 4.2BSD 0 0 0
e: 524288 3094176 4.2BSD 0 0 0
f: 17346298 3618464 4.2BSD 0 0 0
-Glenn
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