Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 11:55:48 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: deborah@gallifrey.microunity.com (Deborah Bennett) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problem with 2.0.5 alpha using NFS install Message-ID: <199506090225.LAA04782@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9506081754.AA04383@gallifrey> from "Deborah Bennett" at Jun 8, 95 10:54:30 am
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Deborah Bennett stands accused of saying: > Here's what I have done so far: > - made a boot.flp using dd to the floppy drive on this > very PC while still running 2.0R Which boot.flp image? There have been dozens. Each set has had an update to the README file with a timestamp in it. If you're working with a set older then 6/6/95, then get a new set. > (A comment here - the red "s" on this menu wrongly led > me to believe that typing "s" would select this disk. > I had to reboot and reread the "how to use menus" > to learn to use the space bar for selections here.) That's right; that's what the help is there for 8) > - Since I've been retrying this, my partition table > is already set up. I have a 100 MB fat slice, > and a 906MB freebsd partition. Make sure you mark it as startable, for paranoia's sake. > - Escape from partition, choose label. > - set mount point for sd0s2a to "/", > set mount point for sd0s2e to "/usr". > Mount point for sd0s2b is already swap. > (Another comment here. I noticed that if I did not > toggle the newfs flag to read "Y", I got a warning message > much later about a read-only root partition. I suggest > that if a user exits from this label menu with root > set to no-newfs, that the warning is printed here too. > Otherwise you have no idea where you went wrong when you > see the message later.) IMHO, / should _always_ be newfs'd, but as this is a change from previous versions, I'm sure there's a Very Good Reason. > - Confirm out of Last Chance > Here the install appears to go normally, I see a newfs of rsd0s2e. > A worrisome message appears on the alt-F2 screen: > Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (3680) disagrees with disk label (2048) > but the newfs seems to proceed. That's normal, it's just a performanmce/size wastage optimisation. > Eventually the Information Dialog hangs with this message: > Loading root floppy from cronus:/s3/bsd/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA What does cronus have to say? Does it see the new machine as an NFS client? > DEBUG: Generating /etc/fstab file Looks like that's your problem... > I go over to the 4th screen with alt-F4, and notice these things: > mount returns this: > mfs_root on / (local) > /dev/sd0a on /mnt (local) > /mnt/dev/sd0s2e on /mnt/usr (local) > cronus:/s3/bsd/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA on /nfs > > If I cd to /nfs and echo *, I see what I expect - the > list of directories from cronus - MIRROR.SITES, README, README.FIRST, etc. > If I cat /etc/fstab, it is empty. ls -l tells me it is zero length, > and its creation date is only a few minutes ago. Its permissions > are 644. What does /mnt/etc/fstab look like? That's the one of interest. > I realize this email is rather long, but my experience with installations > in the past has been that more information is generally better. Yup 8) > I would appreciate any information you can provide about this > install problem. At this point I feel stuck until the WC CD comes > out with this version, since I know that install method works > on this PC. I am willing to perform any simple experiments that > you would like - the disk has been newfs'd now and is useless > until I reinstall the old FreeBSD 2.0R on it. I think that knowing which install floppy you're working from would be very helpful; there have been a huge number of bugs eliminated in the aplha cycle. > Thanks, > -deborah bennett > > Deborah Gronke Bennett (WD5HJH) kernel and device drivers engineer > deborah@microunity.com (408)-734-8100 > MicroUnity Systems Eng., 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1015 USA > "Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again" Ginger Rogers in "Swingtime" > Deborah Gronke Bennett (WD5HJH) kernel and device drivers engineer > deborah@microunity.com (408)-734-8100 > MicroUnity Systems Eng., 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1015 USA > "Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again" Ginger Rogers in "Swingtime" *chuckle* With your background, I can't be sure whether this is warlord flamebait, or an honestly-broken .sig 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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