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.
bsdlabel shows on /dev/ad0s1 the six partitions, a, b, c, d, e, f
Sysinstall, from the boot cd, shows the following
disk name: ad0 and freebsd on ad0s1
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.
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