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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 15:29:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel panic: lockmgr: locking against myself
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980519152832.11841b-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980519102101.D23567@asterix.urc.tue.nl>

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On Tue, 19 May 1998, Jos Backus wrote:

> Well, I'm trying to use the suggested defaults that sysinstall hands me, I'm
> not trying to change anything really. sd0 indeed already has a label, because
> I can currently access the FAT16 partition on it from the -current
> installation on sd1. Only after adding /,/usr,/var and swap using the
> ``A''(uto defaults for all) option the system dies when it tries to newfs the
> root partition.
> 
> Now, I have to add (not sure whether it's relevant, but I'll mention it
> anyway) that I do have a BSD/OS 3.1 partition on sd1, and every time FreeBSD
> mounts harddisks, I receive a warning about ignoring a bad BSD label on sd[01]
> (presumably the BSD/OS one :). The awkward thing about this is that I have
> been unable to have BSD/OS and FreeBSD use the same geometry on the same disk
> at installation time.

Yeah, I bet that BSDi partition is confusing the heck out of FreeBSD.  Any
way you could pull that disk while you're doing the install?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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