Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:48:42 +0100 From: Arne Norre Ekstroem <aneks@ti.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Ben Weaver <sid67@tranquility.net>, Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> Subject: Re: Problems booting 4.1 on 45G drive Message-ID: <3A87A36A.7F98801F@ti.com> References: <3A83C599.FAAFA024@ti.com> <20010209180954.A28821@tranquility.net>
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Ben Weaver wrote: > > So, describe what you are doing to set it up. > > Do you have other Operating Systems on this drive or will it be FreeBSD only? > > When you say the installation completes without errors, it has fdisked, labeled, and installed the necissary files on your drive, then asked you a couple of questions such as whether the machine will be a leaf node or not, then asked for a root password and the option so set up a non-root user, then it tells you the installtion is complete and asks you to restart the computer? > > When sysinstall comes up, and you get to the fdisk part, are you making: > > 1. One giant partition > 2. Several small partitions > > Once you're done making the partitions, and you get into the label editor do you: > > 1. Select autodefaults for all > 2. Specify one giant / partition > 3. Create several partitions consisting of sizes you want (i.e. 100mb /, 2gb /var, 280mb swap, 42gb /usr, and so on and so forth) Hi, Thanks for all the help, everything is working now. My drive is an IBM Deskstar, I don't have the drive right here so the exact model name eludes me. Send me an email if you would like the info. I was so FreeBSD minded that I was running the disk in dedicated mode. My small experiment with a 50Mb root partition was a freebsd partition on a dedicate mode disk. Perhaps, this does not work on cylinder > 1024 ? Anyway, doing slices(fdisk partitions) with one partition on each solved the problem. I think the installer should be improved as to test for the bootability of the system. The optimum solution would of course be to fix the boot loader. Best Regards, Arne -- Arne Norre Ekstroem, M.Sc.E.E., RF Development, mailto:aneks@ti.com Texas Instruments A/S, Sofiendalsvej 85, DK-9200 Aalborg SV, Denmark Direct: +45 9634 6871, Mobile: +45 2223 4321, Fax: +45 9634 6869 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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