Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:09:53 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> To: Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, mjacob@feral.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 Message-ID: <5133.964213793@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:57:08 PDT." <Pine.OSF.3.95.1000721135228.22357B-100000@amadeus.ucsf.edu>
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> At least for myself and several others who had this problem: > > you will never get to the install setup up if your system already has a > BSD (Tru64/NetBSD/Linux (using BSD disk label) and from Matt's example, a > FreeBSD disk with the /sbin/init clobbered) or OpenVMS system disk. > FreeBSD will load the kernel, load the install MFS but then will fail to > find the MFS init routine -- I guess it will try to look for it on the > BSD/VMS disk and will fail to find it. Erm, if that's the case, something seriously does not make sense or is broken in a very fundamental way. When the md driver is compiled in with MD_ROOT set, this happens: SYSINIT(md_root, SI_SUB_MOUNT_ROOT, SI_ORDER_FIRST, md_takeroot, NULL); Which should put the MFS root *first* in the root mount list. Any existing partitions should have no effect on this. - Jordan > > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Seems like it would be an easy thing to try to reproduce: just put a > > > > couple of disks on the system and install Tru64/NetBSD/Linux/OpenVMS on > > > > one of them and then try to install FreeBSD on the other disk... > > > > > > You don't even have to do that. Just take a previous FreeBSD installation and > > > move /sbin/init aside and create a zero length /sbin/init. > > > > I'm still not sure I understand how that should have any effect. > > You're doing an install here, right? And the install is going to > > newfs the root filesystem and repopulate it with distribution bits, > > right? > > > > If you're somehow electing to preserve the existing root partition > > and/or not extract, at a minimum, bindist then this isn't an > > installation at all, this is some sort of "you must know what you're > > doing well enough not to shoot your feet off" quasi-upgrade operation. > > Please clarify. Thanks. > > > > - Jordan > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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