Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:16:51 -0500 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: "Peter C. Lai" <peter@simons-rock.edu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot... Message-ID: <4B71D0C3.5040907@pldrouin.net> In-Reply-To: <201002091608.24051.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <4B70C1F8.8090809@pldrouin.net> <20100209022039.GE4648@cesium.hyperfine.info> <4B70C851.9010604@pldrouin.net> <201002091608.24051.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > >> After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same >> problem than described by this person: >> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4502 >> > > So you get the same "file system full" message and then a panic about > init? > yes exactly. I currently have 4 20GB partitions/slices on that drive 1: Win XP fat32 2: Old FreeBSD installation 3: FAT32 4: Empty UFS2 > >> however I really don't understand why I would need to move partitions >> around to allow the installer to even start? This machine has 2GB of >> RAM which I guess should be plenty enough to start the installer >> without swapping... The hard drive is a 80GB WD IDE drive. The >> machine is not configured to use any RAID. >> > > It is pretty odd, I've installed FreeBSD on a laptop with 60Gb > partitions and FreeBSD was last yet it worked fine.. > > This is the first time I see that kind of warning as well although I have been using it for about 10 years...
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