Re: Problem at first boot
I have the following directories on seperate partitions partitions: / /var /tmp /usr /data /dev shouldn't have a partition mounted to it, as it wastes space. if you do a df -h you will see /dev is always 100% full and has a size of 0 On 9/15/05, Rein Kadastik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW the reason of the booting problem is that kernel mounts / partition and expects to find /bin/sh from there but as the /bin is on separate partiton, then it fails. -- Rein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem at first boot
Hello, I'm a new FreeBsd (French) user, and after 3 days of none-working installs, I, now can boot my server with FreeBSD installed on it. The problem is : it ask me to enter the path for the Shell, and I don't know where it is. Here is the message I get when I attempt to boot : Can't exec /bin/sh fot /etc/rc : No such File or directory. Enter full path of Shell or type Enter for /bin/sh If I type Enter, the system tells me that the file can't be found...I don't know how to do!!! I have installed the system as following : Standard installation * / =1GB * /etc =1GB * /bin =1GB * /dev =1GB * swap partition =2GB * /var =6GB Install with FTP passive This server is going to be a proxy server with vpn/ssl solution. Did I make an error while installing, or is there a simple solution to solve my (very very !!!) big problem?? Thanks a lot... -- Julien Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem at first boot
Julien FOURNIER wrote: Can't exec /bin/sh fot /etc/rc : No such File or directory. Enter full path of Shell or type Enter for /bin/sh If I type Enter, the system tells me that the file can't be found...I don't know how to do!!! I have installed the system as following : Standard installation * / =1GB * /etc =1GB * /bin =1GB * /dev =1GB * swap partition =2GB * /var =6GB Did I make an error while installing, or is there a simple solution to solve my (very very !!!) big problem?? Thanks a lot... -- Julien Fournier Julien I'm no expert on the boot process of FreeBSD but the problem appears to be that your /bin partition has not been mounted. Normally /bin lives in the same partition as / as it contains essential binaries. Normally you could run # mount -a Which will mount all filesystems in /etc/fstab, but because your /etc is on a different partition, presumably it is not already mounted. You have a catch-22. Maybe there is a clever use of the mount command to get the filesystem up (if you know the partition layout) but I suggest you re-install and put /etc, /bin and /dev on the / partition. /var should have its own partition so this is ok. Run the following for a good overview of the filesystem: # man hier Regards Ashley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem at first boot
Your partitioning is not correct. There is no point to put /bin and /etc on their own partitions as they take very small amount of room. I recommend to make another clean install and select Auto option when creating slices Usually separate partitions are recommended for the followind folders: /, /tmp, /usr, /var, /home and swap The purpose of separate partitions are that if one partition gets full then other partitoons have still room and the system can still run. For example if the user downloads files to the home directory, then only /home partition can be filled up but /, /usr, /var and /tmp partitions would still have some room and the system can function correctly. If there would be only one big / partition (totally legal and possible to have) then the user could fill that partiton up and system does not have room for logging and storing temporary files which might introduce unexpected behaviour. Hope this explains the reason of the partitoning (Actually slicing in FreeBSD as there is only one partition containing all the slices) and therefore you can figure out the layout by yourself. -- Rein Julien FOURNIER wrote: Hello, I'm a new FreeBsd (French) user, and after 3 days of none-working installs, I, now can boot my server with FreeBSD installed on it. The problem is : it ask me to enter the path for the Shell, and I don't know where it is. Here is the message I get when I attempt to boot : Can't exec /bin/sh fot /etc/rc : No such File or directory. Enter full path of Shell or type Enter for /bin/sh If I type Enter, the system tells me that the file can't be found...I don't know how to do!!! I have installed the system as following : Standard installation * / =1GB * /etc =1GB * /bin =1GB * /dev =1GB * swap partition =2GB * /var =6GB Install with FTP passive This server is going to be a proxy server with vpn/ssl solution. Did I make an error while installing, or is there a simple solution to solve my (very very !!!) big problem?? Thanks a lot... -- Julien Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem at first boot
BTW the reason of the booting problem is that kernel mounts / partition and expects to find /bin/sh from there but as the /bin is on separate partiton, then it fails. -- Rein Rein Kadastik wrote: Your partitioning is not correct. There is no point to put /bin and /etc on their own partitions as they take very small amount of room. I recommend to make another clean install and select Auto option when creating slices Usually separate partitions are recommended for the followind folders: /, /tmp, /usr, /var, /home and swap The purpose of separate partitions are that if one partition gets full then other partitoons have still room and the system can still run. For example if the user downloads files to the home directory, then only /home partition can be filled up but /, /usr, /var and /tmp partitions would still have some room and the system can function correctly. If there would be only one big / partition (totally legal and possible to have) then the user could fill that partiton up and system does not have room for logging and storing temporary files which might introduce unexpected behaviour. Hope this explains the reason of the partitoning (Actually slicing in FreeBSD as there is only one partition containing all the slices) and therefore you can figure out the layout by yourself. -- Rein Julien FOURNIER wrote: Hello, I'm a new FreeBsd (French) user, and after 3 days of none-working installs, I, now can boot my server with FreeBSD installed on it. The problem is : it ask me to enter the path for the Shell, and I don't know where it is. Here is the message I get when I attempt to boot : Can't exec /bin/sh fot /etc/rc : No such File or directory. Enter full path of Shell or type Enter for /bin/sh If I type Enter, the system tells me that the file can't be found...I don't know how to do!!! I have installed the system as following : Standard installation * / =1GB * /etc =1GB * /bin =1GB * /dev =1GB * swap partition =2GB * /var =6GB Install with FTP passive This server is going to be a proxy server with vpn/ssl solution. Did I make an error while installing, or is there a simple solution to solve my (very very !!!) big problem?? Thanks a lot... -- Julien Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
