Hello
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Marwan Fayed wrote:
>
> 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.
This may be due to a faulty BIOS : some BIOSes do not like at all not
having a DOS partition at the beginning of the disk (I have some HP PCs
with just 20 Megs of FAT at the start of the disk to keep them booting -
from <F2>, which is FreeBSD)
>
> 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
The mount points for each partition are recorded in /etc/fstab : what
you are seeing is completely normal, as sysinstall has not read the
fstab file from the root partition of your disk.
>
> 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!
Try and leave a small DOS partition at the beginning of your disk, as
said above.
>
> 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 :-)
TfH
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